Big band Death and Taxes to play Valentine’s Day on Alameda’s Hornet

The last swing music revival of the late 1990s heralded in by groups like the Brian Setzer Orchestra may have seemed like the end of the line for the big band-fueled dance craziness — just don’t tell that to Rebecca Roudman.

A classical music student at Cal State Hayward (today’s CSU East Bay) in the late 1990s, Roudman and her future husband we’re so into jumpin’ and jivin’ that they did made up fake IDs to let themselves get into swing dance clubs in San Francisco. And they just kept on swingin’.