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 ...

Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that ...

Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble is an instrumental group based out of Madison, Wisconsin. They are primarily influenced by the legendary Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. The ensemble also pulls ...

Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”… one genre at a time. What’s up, Fig?

As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music Jazz is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

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 ...

In a few weeks, C. Calloway Brooks, eldest grandson of the great Cab Calloway, will join the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) as part of a “Klezmer Meets Swing” concert at the Regent Theater in ...

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 ...

Western Swing is a musical genre wonderfully described by its leading historian Cary Ginell as "a bastard child that neither country nor jazz is willing to accept into their own house. In my opinion ...

Contemporary popular culture caricatures jazz as the music of their grandparents, the intelligentsia and elevators. In 2014, Nielsen reported that jazz garners a whopping 1.4% of music consumption in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Multicultural North Charleston choral group Lowcountry Voices will collaborate with others in two ...