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While inevitably influenced by Armstrong, the trumpeter quietly carved out his own style, heard here in a selection from 1930-1959

From movie screenings and concerts to history and discussions, here are numerous ways to celebrate Black History Month in Louisville.

Swing, in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940s, years sometimes called the swing era. Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musicians’ attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats.

For nearly half a century, the Count Basie Orchestra was on top of the heap. These five albums are among the best displays of that excellence.