May 17: Battle of the Bands: New Orleans Jazz Orchestra & Captain Black Big Band
Featured Category • 2h 41m
When The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra with Adonis Rose (a 20-piece ensemble of intergenerational voices) faces off against the Captain Black Big Band with Orrin Evans (a bold, swinging assemblage of artists from Philadelphia and the mid-Atlantic), expect a high-energy, roof-shaking rumble, as they duke it out to the music of Count Basie, Sun Ra, Stevie Wonder, and more, in one of jazz's most beloved traditions, in The House of Swing.
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