Ballroom dancers had also tired of the rigors of frenetic jazz dancing and ... jitterbug and the jive. Swing bands were big business, and if you found the right song you could have a million ...

one listen to Anita O’Day’s best songs remind you of why she was so beloved. Anita O’Day had one of the most distinctive voices in the history of jazz. O’Day made 16 wonderful albums for ...

Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, most musicians are not Quincy Jones.

Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson and Peggy Lee had already recorded Bart Howard’s romantic entreaty by the time Jones arranged a ...

The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, as the group is billed for the Nov. 16 show, visits a lot of performance venues.

and galloping down to its strutting bass — adding magic with heavenly background vocals and a psychedelic swirling guitar solo from jazz great Lee Ritenour. Singling out songs from Jones ...

It’s over five minutes of samples and beats and musical bliss that hearkens back to the 1930s and 1940s when swing music was popular (hence the title “Swing Set”). The song makes you want to ...

I learned so much from her singing — the style of her swing feel and her singing resonates [with] me ... In her early teens, she became interested in jazz. She switched from ... Robin McKelle knows ...

The nine tunes are a combination of Gibbs originals and swing era-classics ... Jazzed Media is an independent jazz label based in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area producing ... Terry Gibbs' new ...

Fort Myers producer Julian Sundby was jamming in the studio one day when he came up with the bluesy jazz song "Time For Some Lightning." Soon, his friend Lindsay Jerger walked in the room and ...