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 ...

The City Rhythm Orchestra has been knocking out audiences for many years at nightclubs, jazz festivals, concert venues and dance events with their high energy music. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls ...

In 1931, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills even dedicated a song to the phenomenon of swing which they called "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing". Yet, to this day, the question of what ...

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 ...

Jazz must swing -- jazz musicians agree on that. However, even 100 years after the beginnings of jazz, it is still unclear what exactly constitutes the swing feel. With a sophisticated experiment and ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts presents a double bill of good-time swing blues music from the 1930s from The Smack Dabs, and Gypsy jazz from Rhythm Future ...

For Rob Dehlinger, the past isn’t something to preserve quietly — it’s something to bring back to life, loudly and energetically. As the leader of the Alpha Rhythm Kings, Dehlinger has built a band ...

In the fall of 1935, the lyricist Sammy Cahn was hired to write songs for his boyhood hero, Louis Armstrong. The songs were to be a part of “Connie’s Hot Chocolates of 1936,” a revue that would be ...