Ninety years ago this month, Duke Ellington and his jazz orchestra made one of their most emblematic and memorable recordings, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).” The title became a ...

When you’re educated, you don’t necessarily get smarter, you get skeptical. I think we have an education problem. I think we have a memory problem. And I think we have a fear problem. His voice may ...

I maintain that taking a month of swing dance lessons almost ten years ago was one of the best choices I’ve ever made. My reason was simple: If I ever happened to be somewhere with a swing dance and a ...