It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

“(The sounds) “be,” “do” and “ee” are basically all you need to get started,” said Medora Zani, 16. Zani was talking about jazz music – particularly the improvised vocal jazz scatting she and about 30 ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2002.19.3.333 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2002.19.3.333 Copy URL The timing in jazz ensemble performances was investigated ...

Avant-garde jazz nowadays makes a lot of noise and a lot of speed, but rhythmically it has scarcely moved out of the ’20s; the boys are still thumping along mostly in a 4/4 beat. This old-fashioned ...

Hands were clapping in the clave rhythm on Friday afternoon inside the Longs Peak room inside the University of Northern Colorado University Center. Leading the clapping was Samuel Torres, a Latin ...