Friday scatblogging – get your scat jazz groove in Fort Worth

It definitely ain’t “Cowtown” at Scat Jazz Lounge, in the old Woolworth’s building.

And that said, while Fort Worth isn’t Chicago or New York, jazz isn’t outré there, anyway:

Fort Worth’s history of jazz has taken innumerable forms since the 19th century. It probably starts with a combination of street-corner singers, moaning the blues in exchange for tossed coins, and a succession of ragtime saloon pianists during the heyday of the cattle-driving Chisholm Trail.

And, playing off the Cowtown riff, Fort Worth is the home of Western swing, arguably a countrified jazz, or jazzified country.