The United Service Organizations sponsored (and still does) entertainment for servicemen and women during World War II. Some of the most popular events were dances regularly held at military posts to ...
They weren’t doing “The Locomotion,” but there were many dancers among the trains at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg Saturday. Swing dancers moved to the music of the Moonlighters big ...
A brassy tribute to the 1940s swing era, “In The Mood,” is a big-band music revue that has been touring all over the world — and now, in its 21st year the show makes its first stopover in New Orleans ...
Rhapsody of Swing celebrates the rhythms and history of jazz. It’s set in a magic realist version of 1940s New Orleans where music is power. Historical figures like the iconic poet Langston Hughes ...
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 ...
AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with “Decade: Pre-1940," a radio stream exclusively playing jazz recorded before 1940. For jazz fans ...