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 ...

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 my neighborhood, young girls swoon to the sound of Dan Barrett's trombone, and their boyfriends get romantic. Melody in Swing will also get your parents up for a round of slow dancing in the living ...

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 ...

"I want to do something for my community that says, 'You have another choice for entertainment,'" says Hertel, a married father of four who works in the Office of Institutional Research at Gonzaga ...

Follow the musical journey of this often overlooked, but totally musical genius. Through the testimonials of family, friends and devoted fellow musicians of all ages, Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing ...

NORWALK — There were roughly 30 dancers in Erik Novoa’s Cross Street studio, half of whom were working out a series of steps that included a kind of foot-plant-and-pivot he referred to as “killing the ...

The next Bainbridge Swing Dance is set for Feb. 1 and will feature Radio Rhythm Idols. The dance takes place on the first Saturday of every month at Family Life Center, 16349 Chillicothe Road, with ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

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 ...