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 ...

Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that ...

In a few weeks, C. Calloway Brooks, eldest grandson of the great Cab Calloway, will join the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) as part of a “Klezmer Meets Swing” concert at the Regent Theater in ...

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 ...

The Philosophy Of Jazz article by Ian Patterson, published on December 30, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Book Review ...

Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...

A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues. As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable.

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

Western Swing is a musical genre wonderfully described by its leading historian Cary Ginell as "a bastard child that neither country nor jazz is willing to accept into their own house. In my opinion ...

Contemporary popular culture caricatures jazz as the music of their grandparents, the intelligentsia and elevators. In 2014, Nielsen reported that jazz garners a whopping 1.4% of music consumption in ...