Reggie Watkins Listening and Liner Notes - Big Bands and the Swing Era - Carnegie in Carnegie

On the Record: Listening & Liner Notes is a four-part series bringing Carnegie’s own Reggie Watkins into conversation with the music that made jazz what it is. Equal parts listening party and guided discussion, each session explores a different era of jazz history through the recordings themselves.

In this session, Big Bands and The Swing Era, Watkins explores the era when jazz grew into something bigger, the orchestras, the bandleaders, and the records that defined a sound and captured a generation.