It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

If any music-lovers out there like to swing, the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall on April 11 will be the time and place to do it.

One of the game-changing effects of Crosstown Concourse’s opening in 2017 was the increase — by orders of magnitude — of live jazz performances in Memphis, thanks to The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.

“Holiday Swing!,” the Charleston Jazz Orchestra’s (CJO) annual Christmas program, is an accessible, fun way to enjoy jazz Dec. 6 at the Charleston Music Hall. For each of the last 18 years, the CJO’s ...

In tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it “New York’s most important musical event of several decades.” The music of Bunk Johnson was not as good as all that, but ...

The Plummer Jazz Quintet will bring jazz and rhythm to Dunn Meadow on Friday as the musical act for this week’s “Swing in September” jazz festival. The Friday festival, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m.

Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...

Joseph Polidoro: What can a 35-millisecond moment in swing jazz tell us about our sense of hearing, our capacity for music, and even human consciousness? Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery ...

Heart-and-soul stirring notes of jazz pulsed through the auditorium Tuesday night at Hutchinson High School. Rehearsing were Jazz Band I members and the New World Singers for their upcoming ...

The Ditties channel the most exciting qualities of classic close-harmony acts, while incorporating song and storytelling elements that reflect not only their personal struggles and aspirations, but ...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. Printed in black and white and bigotry all over, Nazi official Hans Severus Ziegler’s brochure for his public exhibit in Dusseldorf featured an African ...