‘Sultans of Swing’ was both the first single from Dire Straits’ debut album and a revealing first-person account of the average working band’s hardscrabble, often thankless existence playing British ...

With the help of modern swing groups like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, there's a whole new audience for the great dance music of the 1930s and 1940s ...

David Berger knows swing from the inside out, particularly the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, having transcribed 300 of their works. Berger loves the big band dynamic, as well: For seven ...

Some of the most enduring songs are the ones that completely buck tradition and convention, that is, they’re songs that a publisher would laugh you out of his office over if you were pitching. It’s ...