Of all the trends in contemporary music that have come and gone over the years, the swing boom of the mid-to-late 1990s remains one of the most memorable. Seemingly out of nowhere, the hot-jazz sounds ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers was dubbed "a swing revival band" by the music world in the mid-1990s, achieving commercial success with the 1996 album, "Hot." But frontman James "Jimbo" Mathus begs to differ ...

“Hot,” the title of the Squirrel Nut Zippers' breakthrough album recorded a quarter century ago, was apt. Swing was the rage during the mid-to late ’90s and Squirrel Nut Zippers, a retro act out of ...