If there were any decency left in this world, April 12, 1997 would be a day that lived on in infamy, a day which we would acknowledge annually in the name of protecting future generations. It was on ...

It’s a meta-form of nostalgia: looking back at something that was itself looking back at something. Like pining for Happy Days, which was pining for an idealized version of the ’50s. This week is ...

When I first found out that a new style of dance music had conquered whole clubs in Europe, particularly France, I was put off by the name: electro-swing. Immediately, I thought of the so-called swing ...

Call it a revival of the swing revival. Two decades after the Squirrel Nut Zippers ’ breakout album “Hot” — which included the still-ubiquitous oddball single “Hell” and sparked the late-1990s swing ...

In the 1990s, Gen-X kids sparked a swing revival. It's happening again. Swing is back. Now, it's millennials embracing the horn-driven jazz music — its roots now nearly a century old — and learning ...

During the height of the swing dance revival in the late 1990s, night club patrons often dressed head-to-toe in 1950s vintage apparel. Women wore starched taffeta dresses with Peter Pan collars, ...

John Burnett's Orchestra (big band) has been holding forth in and around Chicago for a number of years. Their new, third album Down For Double (Delmark 596) comes out of two live and one studio ...