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 ...
Most people think swing is only for jazz, but that’s not true. In this lesson, Amy Nolte proves that pop and rock melodies ...
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 ...
In a decade when Harlem’s clubs pulsed with the rhythm of the Jazz Age, Queens stood quietly on the threshold of ...
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 ...
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, goes the Duke Ellington song. By that logic, some bird songs really do mean something: at least a few bird species can swing in the same way that ...
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 ...
Rhapsody of Swing celebrates the rhythms and history of jazz. It’s set in a magic realist version of 1940s New Orleans where music is power. Historical figures like the iconic poet Langston Hughes ...
The very name and lingering memory of Louis Armstrong conjures up fervent thoughts in the mind of the musician. It fuels both sideman and soloist with a kind of earthy musical reverence. That's ...
Rod Stewart is reinventing himself at age 79 with forays into new musical genres. The rock legend recently teamed up with Jools Holland and the bandleader's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra to create a new ...
Jazz takes over Bengaluru this November with the Bengaluru Jazz Fest — a seven-day celebration across three weekends. Curated ...