Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s...

concept of "swing" can be hard to define. Indeed, some dictionaries use the terms as synonyms: "Groovy ... denotes music that really swings." The Jazz in America...

1930s saw the rise of swing jazz as a dominant form in American music. Duke Ellington and his band members composed numerous swing era hits that have later...

Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt...

was an outgrowth of jazz. The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, old-time, Dixieland jazz, and blues blended with swing; and played by a hot...

1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue...

Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating...

and the theatrics of Cab Calloway. Many neo-swing bands practiced contemporary fusions of swing, jazz, and jump blues with rock, punk rock, ska, and...

Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house and...

"Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" is a 1936 song, with music and lyrics by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang. Brunswick Records...

Michael Mailer Swing (jazz performance style), the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz Swing music, a style of jazz popular during...

Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe...

subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...

the improvisational solo to the forefront of a piece. Jazz is generally characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and...

become standards within gypsy jazz, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola says...

the younger generation of jazz musicians expanded the creative possibilities of jazz beyond the popular, dance-oriented swing music-style with a new "musician's...

and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His...

brass band, Takuo decides to turn the group into a big band and perform swing jazz. The girls train hard for the performance. Kaori's talent inspires the...

featured in jazz at this point, it was not until the swing era of jazz that the trombone actually stepped into the spotlight. The swing era of jazz reached...

Big Band - jazz, swing Count Basie Orchestra - jazz, swing Beantown Swing Orchestra - swing Louie Bellson Tex Beneke Orchestra Berlin Jazz Orchestra Berlin...

"Moten Swing" (originally "Moten's Swing") is a 1932 jazz standard by Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra. It was an important jazz standard in...

Hawkins's 1939 recording. It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. In the 1930s, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music. Duke...

Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther...

danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era....

1960s and 1970s jazz, pop, soul, and funk. A breezy cover version of the 1968 Barbara Acklin soul hit "Am I the Same Girl?" became Swing Out Sister's last...

The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg...

Punk jazz is a genre of music that combines elements of jazz, especially improvisation, with the instrumentation and performance style of punk rock. The...

wearin' the green. A hummer Exceptionally good. Alligator A devotee of jazz or swing music. Perhaps alludes to sharp-dressing with alligator leather. Beat...

influential player who played with Coltrane. Music portal Jazz portal List of jazz pianists Swing (jazz performance style), a term of praise for playing that...

2017) All Jazz Is Modern: 30 Years of Jazz at Lincoln Center Vol. 1 (2017) Handful of Keys (Blue Engine, 2017) United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln...