In his current role, Jack covers daily music news and has interviewed both ... the Grammy winner announced he's planning to pivot into the swing genre with a new album in the near future ...

Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

Milton Brown was born just west of Fort Worth in Stephenville in 1903. By 1927 Milton and his brother Derwood performed with a band called the Rock Island Rockets, and in 1930 the Brown brothers met ...