A few years ago I got Naomi a couple of instrumental albums called Jazz Minus 1, which basically some great jazz players playing through...

Just wanted to share this documentary the focuses on 4 classic jazz albums that all came out in 1959: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis Time...

I just saw this brief documentary posted by a dance friend on Facebook (thanks to Dom Eagleton for the find!) and it was super...

In 1941 Duke Ellington created an all black musical called "Jump For Joy". It was truly progressive for it's day. He called it the first...

Though I had seen this news short before I appreciate the context that Sandra Cameron Dance Center gives preceding it. Al is a great...

One of our fellow members David showed this to us- a rare interview with Norma that we hadn't seen before from 20 years ago. The focus of...

Hey y'all - I found this on the intertubes and I thought you might enjoy. Check it!

Here's another gem on the Jazz with Jarvis YouTube channel. It's a live TV show with some really great players from the swing era. The...

Jimmy Rushing, famously of the Count Basie Orchestra, is one of my very favorite singers. This is a great 1/2 hour if you have it to...

In honor of our Masters Challenge this month to the great song "Moppin' & Boppin'" by Fats Waller, I just wanted to share this...

Here's a 2 part interview with Sylvia. She's being featured on a West Coast Swing podcast which could seem a bit incongruous nowadays but...

This interview was really special for me personally as I'd heard about George Sullivan as a bit of a legend and I'd taken one master...

Illinois Jacquet: King of the Screeching Tenor Flying Home was one of the songs that I loved starting out that I am not embarrassed to...

Like so many things this video used to be super hard to find and now you can just sit there like a bump on a log and see rare footage of...