One of our fellow members David showed this to us- a rare interview with Norma that we hadn't seen before from 20 years ago. The focus of...

Hey y'all - I found this on the intertubes and I thought you might enjoy. Check it!

Regardless of what you are doing on Valentine's Day, this album has enough love to get you by, be it together with someone else or all...

Here's another gem on the Jazz with Jarvis YouTube channel. It's a live TV show with some really great players from the swing era. The...

If you haven't partaken of some Errol Garner then you are welcome! If you have, you know what a pleasure it is to listen to this jazz...

Jimmy Rushing, famously of the Count Basie Orchestra, is one of my very favorite singers. This is a great 1/2 hour if you have it to...

Ramona mentioned this clip during her session with us so I wanted to post it (go to 53:26). Frankie Manning often spoke of how close he...

In honor of our Masters Challenge this month to the great song "Moppin' & Boppin'" by Fats Waller, I just wanted to share this...

Thanks for joining me. It was super fun sharing these songs with you guys. Hope to do it again sometime. -P

This excerpt is from Louis Armstrong's first autobiography, published in the 1930's. The introduction was written by Rudy Vallée, who was...

You know he meant it because Benny was his boss for a time. From the Afro-American National Edition March 4th 1939

I had a great time with everyone who came to this. We chatted it up so the chat text (complete with puns) is attached to this post. Hope...

These quotes from Thelonious Monk were jotted down by saxophonist Steve Lacy from his time playing with Monk in 1960. I find them to be...

Illinois Jacquet: King of the Screeching Tenor Flying Home was one of the songs that I loved starting out that I am not embarrassed to...

Have you heard of this? Years ago I was lamenting to my guitar player Jake that I wished there was a place I could look up who a musician...

I've spent a lot of time combing through public newspaper archives for lindy hop treasure. Now that we have this blog I think it's the...

"We need to bring swing back, not out of dumb, misguided nostalgia but because swing is a modern rhythm, much more suited to the...