There was considerable evidence last week that big brassy jazz bands would have to pipe down or go away. After twelve years in which swing has been king, the crown is now passing to the sweet. Said ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman was in the midst of a faltering national tour with his young orchestra when he arrived in Oakland late in the Depression-ridden summer of 1935 for a brief run at McFadden's ...