Please note that material donations cannot come directly to the Center. The Swing Era provided the sound track to the Great Depression and World War II, and in its music lie the stories of one of the ...

Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

who now leads Dan Gabel and the Abletones which plays Swing era classics. "This is definitely a special era of music," ...

This year’s Valentine’s Swing Dance begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, February 14, in the lobby of the Jackson N. Sasser Fine ...

“It’s a jukebox musical that celebrates the swing era,” Bauer says ... so it has this very cinematic feel to it, with live music,” he adds. The production will tour venues around ...