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A New Bio On Gene Krupa, Who Made Drumming Swing

All About Jazz 25 Mar 2025
The Master of Drums ... Krupa was instrumental in developing the modern drum kit, the drummer as solo instrumentalist—and of swing music itself ... “A valuable look at the life and career of one of the top stars of the Swing Era ... About the Author. Elizabeth J.
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The king of the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing? Our pick might surprise you

Golf 25 Mar 2025
... Florida Swing recipient ... Also, the kid’s swing ... A swing that any golfer in the steel-shaft era would identify as a real swing (not a hit) that will not wreck your back and will last a long time.
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Contractors face new setback in getting paid for their work

Federal News Radio 25 Mar 2025
The other issue going on — the seeming return to the Brooks era of the General Services Administration (GSA) being ... It does seem like the pendulum is swinging back to an earlier era, that’s true.
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Nels Cline Is Not A Jazz Guitarist

Stereogum 25 Mar 2025
... marked for me my awareness of jazz music beyond what I knew from television or from my dad’s swing-era big band stuff or his Lena Horne records or whatever,” Cline tells me by phone.
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Vote for the FP\u0026L Athlete of the Week for March 17-22

NWF Daily News 24 Mar 2025
Missing barrels and producing swings and misses, Bailey has a 0.68 ERA with a 5-1 record and 75 strikeouts over 41 innings. Batters are hitting just .141 against her with a .207 on-base percentage ... Voting runs through 2 p.m. Friday.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Review

Empire 24 Mar 2025
While her shinobi skills are perfectly suited to everything from combat to exploration — a grappling hook lets her scale towers with ease, swinging around like a feudal era Spider-Woman, while tools ...
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Kobayashi seeks deeper collaboration with CLPG Tour

China Daily 24 Mar 2025
Last week, those visions became a reality ... I am truly honored and delighted," Kobayashi said ... "This is a new era of rapid progress," Kobayashi said. "With today's technology, players can easily study the swings and training methods of those they admire.
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'It's my retrospective': Sylvia Tyson reflects on her Juno-nominated final album

North Shore News 24 Mar 2025
“I kind of felt removed from it,” the Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee explained in a recent interview ... Tyson plans to be there ... “They're inevitably really inaccurate,” she said of the growing number of Hollywood swings at recreating the folk era ... .
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Elon Musk and Gov. JB Pritzker among billionaires spending in pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Chicago Tribune 23 Mar 2025
The first high-profile campaign since the November election, this off-year court race has become a national proxy battle and a bellwether of voter sentiment in perhaps the swingiest of swing states in the early days of the second Trump era.
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Jimmy Van Heusen’s life and music featured in The Syracuse Orchestra’s multimedia premiere

The Post-Standard 22 Mar 2025
The Syracuse-born composer who was a major architect of the swing era in American music will be the focus of “SinginIn Hollywood With Frank and Friends ... the Post-World War II decades of swing.
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The swing of things: Dan Gabel brings 'The American Big Band Experience' to Mechanics Hall

The Gardner News 21 Mar 2025
Meanwhile, Gabel's own name has become synonymous with big band and jazz and swing era music locally, with ensembles that have included Dan Gabel and the Abletones and the Stoptime Revue.
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What to stream: 'Wicked' at home, Selena Gomez in love and Ellen Pompeo in 'Good American Family'

North Shore News 21 Mar 2025
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM MARCH 17-23 ... Do you want to pick off your foes with stealth or rush in with swords swinging? It all takes place during the late Sengoku period of the 1500s, a turbulent era when various warlords were fighting to control Japan ... .
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Color \u0026 Light Festival in Asbury Park, and more things to do at the Shore this weekend

app 20 Mar 2025
Drone footage shows summer beaches along the Jersey Shore ... Go ... Go ... Go ... Go ... Nocturnes features swing-era music of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton and others, as well as songs by the Beatles, Chicago and the Beach Boys.
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Edwin Uceta’s remarkable rise with Rays capped by an ‘oh, wow’ moment

Tampa Bay Times 19 Mar 2025
He hadn’t done much with his limited opportunities in the majors, compiling a 5.80 ERA in 25 games with the Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Mets ... Edwin Uceta's 1.51 ERA, among pitchers last season who threw at least 40 innings, was third best overall.
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