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Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Swing uses a strong anchoring rhythm section which supports a lead section that can include brass instruments, including trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets or stringed instruments including violin and guitar; medium to fast tempos; and a “lilting” swing time rhythm. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise a new melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945.

The verb “to swing” is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong rhythmic “groove” or drive.

Videos

Play Diablo Swing Orchestra – Balrog Boogie

Events

swing gigs in United States • view all

January 2009
Saturday 24 January 2009
Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise - Caribbean 2009 at MS Eurodam Taj Mahal, Etta James, Susan Tedeschi, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond, Tommy Castro, James Hunter, Guy Davis	MS Eurodam Miami, United States	6 people attending 2 shouts

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[deleted-user] wrote:
August 2008

rock & roll + swing = The Lance
SirAlecHendrix wrote:
August 2008

i'm wondering how people use the 'swing' tag, do they mean the jazz genre, the classic jazz era, the swing style within a lot of jazz music or some feeling in a tune whatever ? it's used all over the place, and it's of no use to play swing tag radio ... back to music school, fellow music lovers :-)

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