Everyone has to start somewhere, but it certainly helps if you've got a big band in your corner giving you your big break. That's the focus here, showcasing some of name bands that got their start ...

Mr. Big's seven-year split couldn't stop the band from joining rock's greatest supergroups.

Havana in the 1950s was an exotic suburb of Las Vegas. How the Cuban capital became the playground of American tycoons, celebrities and hustlers is a long and sordid story. Here's the short version: ...

Who would be the "Big 4" bands of Boomer Dad Rock? It's actually quite rare that a band can continue to have an impact on you from the moment you hit your teens all the way through the period of ...

While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting ...

As anyone who’s recently attended a show by Foreigner or Lynyrd Skynyrd knows, it’s become as common as a guitar solo to see a classic rock & roll outfit without any original members in the lineup.