{"id":6,"date":"2018-06-01T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:20:04","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>What is Zingology?<br \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b> <\/b>Well, it&#8217;s the study of <i>ZING!<\/i> The essence of pizzaz. The juice of life, squeezed into a poem. It&#8217;s the ineffable feeling of magic you might experience on the dance floor. And it&#8217;s a tip of our humble hat to those other famous jazz-ologies, Django Reinhardt&#8217;s <i>&#8220;Djangology<\/i>&#8221; and Charlie Bird Parker&#8217;s <i>&#8220;Ornithology.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><b>Check out our new CD: <br \/><em>On the Boulevard <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-418 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2-1024x892.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2-310x270.jpg 310w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zingology-3-21-23-Boulevard-front-cover-option-2.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/em><br \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Our new CD is now available, recorded February 25 at Electric Wilburland Studio in Newfield, NY.\u00a0 This\u00a0collection of 12 vintage swing tunes: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Exactly Like You, Douce Ambiance, I\u2019ll See You In My Dreams, The Man I Love, Black Orpheus, What Is This Thing Called Love, Minor Blues, Pennies From Heaven, Blue Drag, Hungaria and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><b>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/jazzfax-review-of-on-the-boulevard\">Review in JazzFax<\/a><\/b><\/h4>\n<h3><b><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-512 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-16-085111-300x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-16-085111-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-16-085111-604x197.png 604w, https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-16-085111.png 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>The Zingology Combo<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Regular combo members are\u00a0<strong>Brian Keeler<\/strong>\u00a0on guitar,\u00a0<strong>Ted Caldwell<\/strong>\u00a0on stand-up bass,\u00a0<b>Marcie Beaton <\/b>on vocals,\u00a0<strong>Greg Ezra\u00a0<\/strong>on percussion,<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Tyler McCalip and Dave RIchman<\/strong><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on guitars, <b>Jorge Cuevas<\/b> on percussion and\u00a0<strong>Brian Earle <\/strong>on clarinet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other folks may join us as guests when available, including Wayne Gottlieb, Doug Robinson, Harry Aceto, \u00a0Ira Kamp, Mark Woodyat, \u00a0Doug Henrie, and Nina Widger.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Zingology Swing Dance Lessons<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>We love dancers and dancers love Zingology! We play music for Lindy, Waltz, Fox Trot, West Coast Swing, Salsa Rueda, Tango and Balboa, and just plain free-style dancing. If you&#8217;d like us to teach a class before your event, Brian Keeler specializes in Balboa but also can teach lindy, salsa, fox trot, waltz and west coast swing. \u00a0A beginner level class in one of these styles is a great way to get the audience involved.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>For booking, CDs, dance lessons and other info<br \/>contact Brian Keeler at 570-721-0055 or\u00a0<span role=\"gridcell\"><a href=\"mailto:zingologyjazz@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zingologyjazz@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For booking, CDs, dance lessons and other info<br \/>contact Brian Keeler at 570-721-0055 or<br \/><\/strong><span role=\"gridcell\"><a href=\"mailto:zingologyjazz@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zingologyjazz@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Zingology? Well, it&#8217;s the study of ZING! The essence of pizzaz. 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And it&#8217;s a tip of our humble hat to those other famous jazz-ologies, Django Reinhardt&#8217;s &#8220;Djangology&#8221; and Charlie Bird Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Ornithology.&#8221; Check out our new CD: On the Boulevard Our new CD is now available, recorded February 25 at Electric Wilburland Studio in Newfield, NY.\u00a0 This\u00a0collection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briankeeler.com\/zing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}