The majority of the bands were large instrumental ensembles--often listing more than twenty-five student musicians--that in the professional world would be categorized as 'super-sized' big bands.

Classic Disney tunes are given the big-band jazz treatment on this new release, featuring artists such as Gregory Porter, Melody Gardot, Stacey Kent, Jamie Cullum and more. Released on Verve today, ...

Attention all jazz and Disney lovers, the follow-up to last year's Jazz Loves Disney, is back with volume two: Jazz loves Disney 2 - A Kind of Magic. The album, which features a collection of jazz and ...

“We try to pick a really diverse range of music from a lot of different films,” says Anthony Hervey of “When You Wish Upon a Star: A Jazz Tribute to 100 Years of Disney,” a traveling show put together ...

On Nov. 18, Verve will release Jazz Loves Disney, a 13-track album of classic Disney tunes from Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, the Jungle Book and more that have been “given the big-band jazz ...

It’s Black History Month, and although we celebrate being Black all year, it’s a time to amplify the culture and remind the world of how magical we are. Disney is helping do this by bringing a jazz ...

This fall marks the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, which was founded on Oct. 16, 1923. This Sunday night, the Weinberg Center in Frederick, Maryland hosts the final tour stop of “When ...

Disney meets jazz in an exciting way this month at the College of DuPage. “When You Wish Upon a Star: A Jazz Tribute to 100 Years of Disney” is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the McAninch Arts Center at the ...

Music has been an important part of the Disney formula ever since the studio began making films in the late 1920s, and the enormous success of the so-called “Magic Kingdom" has pushed many of its ...