From the 1930's through the 1950s, Big Band jazz was an immensely popular form of American music. Swinging ensembles of horns, drums, strings and keyboards played music that was not only great to ...

Bonsanti has a terrific ear for color and balance… he elicits some ear-ravishing textures… and his soloists on this CD—both the regulars and the stand-ins—are nothing short of terrific… What Bonsanti ...

In the wacky world of Looney Tunes, the laws of physics simply don’t apply. A character may hit the air running before plummeting into the depths of a canyon, be concertina’d by a falling anvil, or ...

The malicious coronavirus pandemic that brought most of the world to its knees in 2020 has spawned the use of several reanimated words including "virtual," whose meaning is "sort of here but not ...

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, of “Take Five” fame, died last Wednesday, the day before his 92nd birthday. Brubeck had at least a couple of animation connections. He composed music for “The NASA Space ...

Designer Allister Roberts recently created a chart documenting the use of jazz in animated shorts between 1929 and 1945. He has generously allowed me to share his work with Brew readers. In addition ...