Hanna Rifkin sings a few songs with the UC Berkeley Jazz Alumni Big Band, with 16+ musicians

Male vocalist Dean Whiteside sings some too

At The Bistro in Hayward

Free Show

A big band or jazz orchestra is a musical ensemble of jazz music that consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular.