Discover how German teenagers used swing music, fashion, and defiance to resist the Nazi regime at great personal risk. The ...

The Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest is back in Lawton for its annual Hall of Fame Celebration.

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 ...

Legendary band leader Bob Wills has been gone for half a century, but the music that he personified is still alive and ...

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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 ...

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 ...