Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this July with a full slate of nightly performances! See the full lineup ...

The Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy IgoeBirdlandNew York, NYDecember 28, 2011 On a chilly Wednesday night in December, drummer and bandleader Tommy Igoe directed the fifteen-piece Birdland Big ...

Last Friday the Birdland Big Band returned to the scene of their two-decade-long residency, and the patrons of the legendary nightclub could not have looked (or sounded) happier.

Ron Carter's Big Band at Birdland article by Nenad Georgievski, published on November 12, 2022 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...

The Birdland Big Band played standards as well as a few of the band members’ original compositions such as “Blues for Kaepernick,” written in honor of the courageous football player and ...

In a one-night-only event at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, the Birdland Big Band, on a maiden tour outside of its New York City digs, presents "Live at Birdland," a spectacular presentation ...

One might assume the Birdland Big Band follows this tradition because of its name and its association with a club renowned for jazz, but that's not what Igoe has in mind when he stands before his ...

I had everything I wanted. The Birdland Big Band was my crown jewel. Then my wife got a job at Google, and we decided to blow it all up and move out here. On the front story: We want to do a ...

Living with the past Regardless of its resistance to being anchored to history, one can't appreciate the music of the Birdland Big Band without understanding Birdland itself.