It's Benny Goodman's Birthday!!!
Today is the birthday of the King of Swing! The day swing fans everywhere celebrate! Need I say more? (By the way, the picture above is one of my favorite pictures of Benny )
Biography on Dizzy Gillespie last night was excellent! From what I know about Diz, Ken Burns' protrayal of him as basically just an angry young man with a horn was somewhat inaccurate, not to mention incomplete. The A&am…
Tonight A&E Biography is on Dizzy Gillespie! Being the well-rounded person I am (which means I like not only swing, but also most things lumped under the category "tradional jazz" and bebop), I thought I would inform…
Benny's birthday is getting closer! You can send an e-card with Benny on it from here or go to the bottom of this page (which has jazz music you can put with your cards) and enter the URL of your own pic. Below are some …
I'm working on making a CD player with a jazz theme. Maybe I'll actually finish it someday and post it here! ;-)
Check out the countdown at the bottom of the page! :-D
May must be the month of the clarinetists! Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, and Artie Shaw were all born this month!
When is Xanga coming out with their "super counter?" I don't want to add a counter to the site and then have to start all over when Xanga comes out with theirs (which I'd most likely like to use), and then again, it woul…
Check out this little game I made a while ago! It's pretty cute and has swing background music. Also, I made all the graphics (except the backgrounds) myself! :-) Click here to download (it's only about 560K).
The Fabulous Dorseys? More like the argumentative Dorseys! As I expected, the movie was pretty bad, but there was enough good music to make up for it, especially that jam session with Art Tatum, Ziggy Elman, and Charlie …
Well, I just got a new hard drive, and I've finally reinstalled (most) everything. :-) I watched Ball of Fire last night, and it's hard to say which I liked better, A Song is Born or Ball of Fire. Although Ball of Fire m…
