whose two swing tribute albums this century have sold more than 10 million copies) as music lovers go back to the greats, such as jazz bandleaders Basie and Ellington, who created some of the most ...
With concerts set for this weekend with guests Byron Stripling, Leo Manzari and Carmen Bradford, the orchestra aims to turn Jones Hall into a jazz-age nightspot ...
The Collegiate Shag is a partner dance done primarily to uptempo swing and pre-swing jazz music. It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s and 30s. It is ...
What if I told you jazz is a Charleston birthright? That its melodies pulse through the Lowcountry like the weaving of sweetgrass baskets or the stirring of She-Crab soup. These rhythms, sparked by ...
My Father was a bartender, and he was very much into the music of the swing ... Throughout his career, Don Cherry favored the stubby but warm pocket cornet and was most closely identified with the ...