A Brooklyn jazz band aims to shake your booty and to shake up the staid image of their genre. Sweet Megg and the Wayfarers will host a wild party on Sept. 14 to launch its second, self-titled album, ...

Everything old is new again. A Bushwick jazz singer is offering a musical retro refuge for those looking for respite from increasingly bleak world news. Tatiana Eva-Marie, whose latest album “Je suis ...

“Swing!,” which opens tonight at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, is a dance show. But not the way “A Chorus Line” or “West Side Story” or “Chicago” are dance shows. While those musicals may feature some ...

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 ...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon ...

New York City is known across the globe as “The Big Apple.” But where does the name come from? Some say it’s origins can be traced to the heart of the Palmetto State, to the dance floor of a popular ...

Dinah; Exactly Like You; Goofus; Honeysuckle Rose; Oh; Lady Be Good!; Professor Visits Harlem; Oriental Stock Exchange; Sophisticated Swing; Twilight in Turkey ...

This semi-formal event will be held in the lobby of the Jackson Sasser Fine Arts Hall and will include light appetizers and ...

Step, step, triple-step, swing out, quick stop. Shimmy wiggle jump down no jive -- swing time. More than 400 Lindy Hoppers from around the world partnered up and boogied down in Seattle this weekend ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We have proof that humans have been dancing as far back as prehistoric times. They danced for their god or gods, to celebrate ...