NOLA Girl Jam 2012. NOLA Girl Jam spotlights swing dancers, chorus girls, traditional jazz musicians and some great New Orleans songbirds during a three-day celebration of women in jazz and dance ...

For the better part of the 1940s, O’Day would sing with prominent big bands, including Woody Herman’s and Stan Kenton’s. This was the big band era, and each band had a “girl singer,” conspicuously ...

To connect with the Lindy Hop, a form of swing dance born in Harlem in the 1920s, you can look beyond the Lindy Hop. At least that’s the premise of “The Jazz Continuum,” running at the ...

arts entertainment Visual Arts. A concert series will honor jazz dance pioneer Danny Buraczeski, who is departing SMU Works will be performed April 4-8 in two alternating programs by the SMU ...