Felix Contreras hosts NPR's swing celebration of Christmas music.

NPR: A Jazz Piano Christmas 2007

Fans of American roots music such as swing, blues, and rockabilly need look no further than HighTone Recordings, distributor of Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, among others.

CNN: Where to buy music on the Web

There's music that's presented as swing that's corny.

WSJ: Winter Jazzfest | The Broad Tent of Jazzfest | By Jim Fusilli

Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.

WSJ: Five Best

She's a jazz violinist with her own swing band and is known as a champion of contemporary American music.

NPR: Marin Alsop Takes over Baltimore Symphony

"The Swing Era" might be uneven as a history of the music, but it shines as a highly opinionated and erudite survey from a brilliant mind with a golden ear and a precise pen.

WSJ: Five Best

He also creates two decent female roles - the club's manager Marian - an ex-"Swing Kid" interned before the war for her love of American music - and waitress Elke, who hides her disgust for her nation behind a brash American accent.

BBC: History informs Beatles play

It was music that was bluesy with a cool, laid-back swing, coming from a polite Southern gentleman who had a sharp, biting wit.

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