Sixty years into a wildly accomplished career that counts music as only the foremost of many aspects, Ben Sidran takes yet another new direction with the September 16 release of Swing State ...
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 ...
Follow the musical journey of this often overlooked, but totally musical genius. Through the testimonials of family, friends and devoted fellow musicians of all ages, Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing ...
The word "jazz" was hardly known before 1912, and even then it was more likely to be used in relation to sports than music. It was probably a derivative of the 19th-century word "jasm", and it started ...