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 ...

A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’. Some of the most fearless, interactive, and creative jazz of the 1960s and ’70s ...

The “We Always Swing” Jazz Series celebrated 30 years with a poster gallery featuring framed prints and signed posters from three decades of jazz series performance cycles in a collaboration with the ...

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 ...

Jazz musicians and scholars have long debated the question: What exactly is this thing called swing? Now physicists say they've cracked the secret. KELLY: ...Specifically about jazz. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

February is for lovers — jazz lovers, specifically. Columbia's venerable "We Always Swing" Jazz Series has a terrific month planned as it dives into the 2025 section of its '24-'25 season with three ...

Featuring an All-Star Lineup: Hannah Gill, Queen Esther, Gabe Terraccciano, Alphonso Horne, Justin Poindexter, Gordon Webster, Patrick Soluri, and more. As a relatively new group founded in 2018, the ...

Veteran trombonist, educator and bandleader Robert Edwards is a fixture of New York City jazz scene, performing in many of the jazz venues in the city and, as of this writing, becoming the newest ...

Regattabar, where giants such as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock have all played, has been closed for more than three years. That changes Friday, when the iconic jazz club reopens ...