{"id":372604,"date":"2026-07-14T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:07:09","slug":"kingwood-big-band-rebrands-as-kingwood-jazz-orchestra-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372604\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingwood Big Band rebrands as Kingwood Jazz Orchestra | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingwood Big Band changed its name to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhmas.org\/kingwood-jazz-orchestra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingwood Jazz Orchestra<\/a> this summer, conductor Dennis Eichler confirmed July 7.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2004, the 18-piece musical group is made up of both community members and student musicians, and is funded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhmas.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Houston Musical Arts Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s changed <\/p>\n<p>Eichler said the name change was done to more accurately convey to the public the genre of music the group performs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just felt like a lot of folks didn&#8217;t really understand when they heard the name &#8216;Kingwood Big Band&#8217; they would think it was something like a marching band or a symphonic band,&#8221; Eichler said. &#8220;So if we add the word &#8216;jazz&#8217; in the name, they would instantly know that it&#8217;s jazz-oriented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out<\/p>\n<p>For the upcoming season, the Kingwood Jazz Orchestra has two performances scheduled:<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are not yet available for either performance, per the LHMAS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kingwood Big Band changed its name to the Kingwood Jazz Orchestra this summer, conductor Dennis Eichler confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,59679,8419,131893,131894,131895,574],"class_list":["post-372604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jazz-music","tag-kingwood","tag-kingwood-big-band","tag-kingwood-jazz-orchestra","tag-lake-houston-musical-arts-society","tag-live-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}