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Don Berner and Big Band on big band music and the pandemic

For Don Berner and Big Band, the pandemic has hit live music hard. However, they're ready to go out and face the Edmonton crowds soon.

Three to See Friday: Babcock's Jump Orchestra, Jim Visser and The Northman

Jump Orchestra: Band leader Dave Babcock’s 10-piece lineup is inspired by 1940s jump bands...

Jazz Band Tunes Up for evacuees

The Don Berner and Big Band is playing to help out Fort McMurray fire relief efforts. Tommy Banks and P.K. Perry will be spevial guests when saxophonist Berner's big band performs as part of the Sunday...

Blue Note & Big Band

Let’s face it: jazz isn’t the cultural movement it once was. The improvisational genre’s fanbase, today, is far more niché and underground than it was 60 years ago. So, it’s not every day that jazz...

Brass Fantasy and Lina Allemano

Throughout the past decade, the Don Berner Big Band has played some of the hottest professional jazz in western Canada – everything from Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald to the classic Motown sound filled...