Most recent:
02/12/2012 - Red Norvo Orchestra02/05/2012 - Tommy Dorsey's Greatest Band
01/29/2012 - Lawrence Brown
01/22/2012 - The Band that Plays the Blues
01/15/2012 - Benny Goodman and Harry James
01/08/2012 - Singing Bandleaders
01/01/2012 - Battle of Bands
12/25/2011 - Christmas
12/18/2011 - Theme Songs
12/11/2011 - Musical Doppelgangers
12/04/2011 - Glenn Miller and the Andrew Sisters
11/27/2011 - Radio Transcription
About Big Band Spotlight:
Swing, bop and jive to the best big band music from the hay day of the swing era through today. Every Sunday night at 7 CT 6 MT, learn about the sounds, leaders, players & arrangers with host Karl Gehrke and his vast swingin' reservoir of big band music and knowledge.
Karl Gehrke fondly recalls asking his parents to turn down their rock music so he could hear his big band records. He's been bringing you Big Band Spotlight since the early 1990's. A former SDPB Radio and Minnesota Public Radio producer, he also hosts our new Saturday night music show Extended Play.