AMSTERDAM — Linda Lee and the Foxcreek Band will play music from the swing era through the 1960s for square and round dancing from 4 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 29, at Elks Lodge 101, 8 Fourth Ave. Doors will ...

Ninety years after the swing era sparked to life in Oakland, dancers still love the Lindy Hop, supplying jazz musicians with ...

Bill Finegan, 91, an architect of the big-band sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller who later traded in commercial success to co-create the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, which produced music that ...

These days, young people are embracing the music and steps that kept their grandparents out late at night — swing dancing. And they are moving to the uniquely American big band sound that filled dance ...

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 ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...

Historic Jazz Recordings from the Swing Era article by Larry Slater, published on October 10, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles ...

Servant Stage Company will have a Dickens of a season in 2025. “We definitely have a strong literary theme running, and we’ve got even a bit of a heavy Dickens theme with two shows from works of ...

For the 17th year in a row, the USS Hornet will be holding a New Year’s Gala on Tuesday night featuring an auction, swing music provided by two bands and … who knows? Maybe even a marriage proposal.

Built in 1930, the historic Warrior Hotel was considered the swankiest place to cut a rug in downtown Sioux City. Certainly, the art deco design by Kansas City-based architect Alonzo H. Gentry ...

At first, no one knew what to call it. The voices were warm and soulful, but the drums were hard, metallic, stuttering. It sounded something like hip-hop, but the melodies were pure pop. For a time, ...