Swing, jazz and blues - Dance to the music

Jive talk was the slang language of the 1930's and 1940's. Here is video clip with some of the expressions from the swing era. Bett...

Hit that jive, Jack is one of the classic swing songs . The song is written by Johnny Alston and Skeets Tolbert. Just like Route 66 , it wa...

Here is a great video with Gene Krupa playing Drum Boogie from the film Ball of Fire . Ball of Fire was made in 1941 and features Gary Coop...

Here is video clip from the film Doll Face from 1946 where Perry Como and Martha Stewart sings "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)...

Sometime I come across jazz musicians whose name I've heard but haven't really listened to. One of those was trumpeter Red Nichols, ...

A while ago I wrote about a PBS documentary about soundies . In the trailer for the documentary I spotted a soundie that I really liked: th...

Do you think school should be more fun? Well then, take a look at this video clip with Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson performing Keep t...