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 ...

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 ...

When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The beating heart of Athens would not have the same beat without the genesis of ...

In 1931, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills even dedicated a song to the phenomenon of swing which they called "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing". Yet, to this day, the question of what ...

Five years ago, before the cry of the jitterbug was heard in the land, a boyish, exuberant Frenchman was busy filling a medieval French castle with hot phonograph records by U.S. jazz players. The ...

Shirley McMarlin Friday, April 15, 2022 1:31 p.m. | Friday, April 15, 2022 1:31 p.m. For 24 years, Neon Swing X-perience has been jumpin’ and jivin’ across area stages, playing a lively blend of ...

Once the Mecca of jazz music, now nothing but office buildings. Today, 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Midtown Manhattan is nothing but skyscrapers. People come here to work, do some ...