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 ...

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 ...

Rod Stewart is reinventing himself at age 79 with forays into new musical genres. The rock legend recently teamed up with Jools Holland and the bandleader's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra to create a new ...

A little over a decade ago, swing music made a strange comeback. You may remember seeing people all over dressing like ’40s hipsters, jumping and jiving in Gap commercials and most every club or bar ...

The Legends of Western Swing Music Festival began in Canton, Texas, in 1987 on a single stage. Boy has it grown ever since, said producer Gloria Miers. “We’ve been going a long time, and we are sort ...

When this reporter recently asked Cubs manager Joe Maddon to give a historical comparison to Javier Baez’s swing, he expected Maddon to wax on about the time he saw a young Gary Sheffield play for the ...

STARK CITY, Mo. — Dewayne Bowman has spent his entire life traveling the United States and playing western swing music. Now at 70, Bowman’s accomplishments in the music industry are being honored and ...

Swing bands, and the couples who moved across the dance floor to those popular tunes, ruled the roost in Westchester in the 1930s and 1940s, with hundreds of dancers showing up for a night out at Glen ...

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 ...