The Smack Dabs, a band specializing in 1930s swing blues, is performing a season-closing concert at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June ...

You can take the kid out of the jazz band, but you can’t take the jazz band out of the kid. Or something like that. It’s a formula that sits at the core of Bruce Cameron of Elgin, organizer and ...

Swing bands, and the couples who moved across the dance floor to those popular tunes, ruled the roost in Westchester in the 1930s and 1940s, with hundreds of dancers showing up for a night out at Glen ...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon ...