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	Swing (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed during the 1920s and solidified as a distinctive style during the 1930s in the United States.
		Swing is distinguished primarily by a strong rhythm section, usually including double bass and drums, medium to fast tempo, and the distinctive swing time rhythm that is common to many forms of jazz.
		Swing bands tended to be bigger, and more crowded than other jazz bands, necessitating a slightly higher level of organization than was then the norm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swing_(genre) (816 words)

	Jazzitude \| Jazz History 3: Swing & Big Bands
		In the height of the swing era, the bands could be quickly recognized based on factors such as the instrumental style of the leader, the sound and style of the arrangments, and the individual voices of the primary soloists within each organization.
		Swing music, and not rock and roll, was one of the first defining elements of mass youth culture, and one of the first to be commercially exploited, albeit many years after it originated.
		Swing is also generally seen as a highly democratic form of music and one that did much to relax the racial divisions of the country.
	www.jazzitude.com /histswing.htm (1079 words)

	Between the Wars: The Swing Era
		By the late twenties, musicians had begun modifying the forms of "jazz." In the 1930s a new form of jazz had emerged, called "swing." Swing music was characterized by very large bands, fixed, usually written arrangements, and solos by individual musicians in turn instead of group improvisation.
		Swing bands typically used an upright or double bass instead of the tuba which had often characterized dixieland, and played repeated "riffs" to give the music its propulsive rhythmic force.
		Swing bands ranged from "Kansas City" style groups like Count Basie's, which emphasized a very bluesy, intensely riff oriented style, to New York based bands like Duke Ellington's or Glenn Miller's which experimented with a more orchestral range of colors.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/hist409/swing.html (1228 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: The Swing Book by Degen Pener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Swing, he once said, "is as difficult to explain as the Mona Lisa's smile or the nutty hats women wear—but just as stimulating.
		Swing was as important for its cultural resonance as it was for its musical achievement.
		Swing, in general, began to be seen as a representation of the values that America was defending.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/98/0316698024/chapter_excerpt9534.html (8286 words)

	Swing Era: Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Swing became so specifically defined that it is often thought of as a genre of its own, a separate trajectory from the jazz which preceded and followed it.
		Leroi Jones' dramatic narrative of the growth of Swing out of early jazz also highlights the self-consciousness of its relationship to other forms of jazz, and to other art forms in general, which is intrinsic to Swing.
		Simultaneously, the growth of importance of written criticism as a shaping force during the Swing Era shifted emphasis from the stage of artistic performance and analysis within the music itself to art or discourse created in analysis of the music.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ASI/musi212/emily/estyle.html (440 words)

	Jazz to Swing
		The third and longest era is from 1945 to the present.
		Swing was not only successful in making jazz commercial, but also in making it acceptable to the white population.
		In order for swing to be popular to the mass public, the bands and their leaders had to have commercial potential and therefore had to be white.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/music/jazz2swing.htm (671 words)

	Swing Music Net - Big Band Music / Jazz History
		Furthermore smaller jazz groups, comprised of both former big band era soloists and new young musicians alike, have continued to utilize many parallel distinctions of the language of swing in their playing and recordings since the fall of the big bands.
		The language of swing is still spoken today by a number of talented latter-day jazz musicians and modern swing bands.
		In the mid 1990s renewed interest in swing music was fueled by a swing dance resurgence of the Lindy-hop and jitterbug swing dances.
	www.swingmusic.net (1147 words)

	Swing Era (big bands)-- History of Jazz
		The Swing Era is the term routinely given to jazz of the 1930s--the era of big bands, high profiles, and glitzy commercial successes, the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and many others.
		From a purely musical standpoint, the Swing Era is the time of large dance orchestras--the "big bands" of the period.
		In a swing band, the melodic character of a tune tends to be clear.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~skd9r/MUSI212_new/assignments/Swing_bands.html (2258 words)

	Music Info
		For the classic era of Swing (about 1935-1949), the music was a form of jazz that normally used arrangements and was rehearsed, but still allowed room for interpretation and improvisation.
		As swing dancers learned more about different types of swing music and began to appreciate the experiences of dancing to different styles and tempos of swing music, a greater variety of music began to be played at swing dances, and certain trends developed.
		Big Band swing was the popular and dominate music of the era, not only for radio, but the movies, in nightclubs, at high school and college dances and parties, and at the local ballroom.
	www.uky.edu /StudentOrgs/HKSDC/Music.html (9845 words)

	Swing Era (from jazz) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Perhaps the most magnificent “swing machine” that ever was, the Basie band strongly emphasized improvised solos and a refreshing looseness in ensemble playing that was usually realized through “head arrangements” rather than written-out charts.
		Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musicians' attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats.
		Discussion of the end of the Warring States period, the imperial era, and the era of disunity.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-203232 (920 words)

	Swing Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kevin Whitehead's New Dutch Swing is a tour de force of jazz scene writing, readily accessible to the cognescenti and the casual alike.
		The Swing Era Scrapbook is not a standard narrative text, but rather devoted to listing logs of the tunes played by bands on thousands of radio broadcasts and recording sessions.
		Collier's book "BG And The Swing Era" perpetrates many myths and inaccuracies, mainly because he seems to have this fear about going to primary sources and seems to get a lot of his information off album sleeves and from 12th-hand anecdotes.
	goldset.hf4l.com /?p=swing+music (3762 words)

	The Historical Evolution of the Jazz Trombone: Part Two
		While Dixieland bands were small combos consisting of about six to eight musicians, a swing era big band usually had four trumpets, three or four trombones, four or five saxophones, piano, bass, drums, and sometimes a guitar.
		In the Swing Era, the majority of the music was arranged previous to the performance, due to the larger nature of the band.
		Tommy Dorsey, who was to become one of the most popular trombonists of the swing era, so respected Teagarden's playing that he refused to play a solo while Teagarden was in the same room (Simon, 213).
	www.trombone.org /articles/library/evojazz2.asp (1190 words)

	Amazon.com: The Swing Era : The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz): Books: Gunther Schuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And he demonstrates the gradual atrophying of swing by repetition, formularization, the reduction of improvisation and loss of spontaneity.
		The reason it was chosen is that it is the most comprehensive work on the swing era in jazz.
		He is very passionate about swing music, it is obvious, but many of his descriptions and comparisons are practically worthless to the student of music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195071409?v=glance (2247 words)

	Swing Era Photos Of Famous Jazz Musicians
		He was a big draw at the Cotton Club in Harlem in the early 1930s and went on to lead a successful band during the big band era.
		Typically the hosts would have one or two jazz musicians or critics on hand to give their opinions on the swing music disc being played.
		This was one of four superb big bands to come out of K.C; the other three were the big bands of Count Basie, Andy Kirk, and Jay McShann.
	www.swingmusic.net /Swing_Era_Pics.html (967 words)

	Swing Descriptions
		It developed during the Jazz Era of the 1920's (Lindy Hop), was refined during the the Big Band Swing Era of the 1930's (Swing), and refined during the Rock 'n Roll Era of the 1950's and 1960's (Jitterbug).
		Swing styling is usually more limited and swing can be danced more comfortably to faster music.
		Swing Dancing can vary from the primitive forms of Swing used in high school to Swing danced with precise footwork, timing, and leads in dance exhibitions.
	www.ssqq.com /information/descswng.htm (2137 words)

	Swing Era Artists
		His virtuoisity as a soloist led to abandonment of the previous standard practice in jazz of concentrating on individual instruments' relation to the group as a whole, and to increased importance of solos.
		Her first recordings were with the bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie, and she toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw in 1937 and 1938.
		His style was characterized by a "swinging" lightness of texture, a relaxed divergence from many of the swing orchestrations of the 1930s.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html (1876 words)

	Gary Giddins conversation on big bands on Jerry Jazz Musician
		You can't separate the swing era from dance because the public was so involved with it.
		The difference was that, unlike the first swing era, when music was performed primarily for dancers, theirs was a concert music featuring a larger group instead of a small group.
		But the Swing Era of, say, 1935-1947, was a period when organizations with fifteen to seventeen pieces, plus singers and arrangers, traveled the entire country, going to virtually every city of every size, playing in any kind of large ballroom, and people were coming out for them.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /mainHTML.cfm?page=giddins-underrated4.html (10168 words)

	UK HEPKATS SWING DANCE CLUB
		Swing Dancing at Jim and Jack's On the River, 3456 River Rd., Cincy, OH; 7-10 pm.
		But if you attended the UK Swing Dance Club swing dance on Saturday, November 19th, 2005 at the UK Student Center Grand Ballroom, you know what absolutely outstanding music the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra (KJRO) provided that evening.
		Many of these songs are not played very often at live music venues in their original arrangement by your average "big band" or "swing band" due to their technical difficulty.
	www.uky.edu /StudentOrgs/HKSDC (1708 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: J: Jazz: Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Any Swing Goes - An online magazine dedicated to the revival of swing and big band music and dancing, including the latest swing news, reviews, an online chat lounge, and a comprehensive links directory to everything swing on the Internet.
		The Los Angeles Swing Times - A calendar of swing and lindy hop events in and around Los Angeles.
		Swing Baby, Swing - Swing dancing photographs for the San Francisco Bay area along with CD shopping links for an extensive list of swing bands and artists.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/J/Jazz/Swing (428 words)

	Swing Dance and Lindy Hop Videos, DVDs and Shoes
		Swing dance videos and DVDs to learn from the masters, including Frankie Manning, Ryan Francois, Erik and Sylvia, Steven Mitchell, Marcus and Barbl, Jonathan and Sylvia.
		There are many swing dance styles done today: the first and original swing dance is the Lindy Hop, which later became known as the Jitterbug and led to the 6-count dance now known as East Coast Swing.
		West Coast Swing is another form of swing dance usually done to slower, bluesier music.
	www.swingdanceshop.com (189 words)

	Popular Music Slang Expressions
		Lindy Hop THE dance of the Swing Era, and of the new Millennium also.
		Swing The great music of the 1930s to 1940s, and again in late 1998 and into the 2000 millenium.
		It is symbolized by a sensational beat with the melody usually played against a background 'Riff'.
	nfo.net /usa/slang.html (3249 words)

	The Swing Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During the "Swing Era" the two most famous composer/arrangers were Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington.
		By the late Thirties and early Forties the Swing-Big Band era was at its height, just as other parts of everyday life were falling apart.
		Who was the outstanding vocalist of the Swing Era.
	my.execpc.com /86/51/svitale/SwingEra.htm (231 words)

	Jazz Standards Books: (The Swing Era: The Development of ...)
		The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz, Vol.
		Swing, Swing, Swing: the Life and Times of...
		To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie
	www.jazzstandards.com /Bookstore/Book120.htm (678 words)

	Mainstream Jazz Vocalists And Jazz Influenced Pop Vocalists
		Ray Charles patterned his style after Nat Cole early, cut some superb jazz records in the '50s, and created a new genre called soul music.
		Visit the Swing Music Net Jazz Web Board to ask questions or read what others are looking for in the way of jazz from the 1930s to the present.
		The role of economics, early recording technology, and radio relative to the conception of the Big Band Era.
	www.swingmusic.net /Swing_Vocalists.html (260 words)

	Listen to Free Online Swing Radio Stations - Live365 Internet Radio
		Swing is the kind of Jazz that was popular during the Swing era -- roughly from 1935 to 1945.
		The roots of Swing lie in the rhythmic concepts of Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Billy Holiday.
		Swing and Big Band Music, with authentic WWII radio excerpts.
	www.live365.com /cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=swing (303 words)

	Count Basie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At this point they became known as Count Basie's Orchestra and also one of the leading bands of the "swing era." Basie developed an "elliptical' style of melodic leads and cues which allowed him to control the band from his keyboard while also blending in with his rhythm section.
		Much of the success of the rhythm section was due to both "Papa" Joe Jones, one of Basie's contemporaries and pioneer of the constant high-hat cymbal style, as well as the fact they practiced independently of the band on many occasions to exact the buoyant swing heard in the music.
		And the final element that helped to make them number one in swing was the soloists such as Harry Edison, Dicky Wells, and Benny Morton.
	www.duke.edu /~stc2 (439 words)

	ARTIE SHAW: 1910-2004 / Bandleader was last of the swing-era giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He formed a series of outstanding and innovative bands noted for their orchestral richness, cohesion and swing.
		He eventually returned to studio work and in 1936 was asked to put together a band to play an interlude at a Swing concert at the Imperial Theater featuring stars like Tommy Dorsey and the Casa Loma Band.
		In 1937, Shaw formed a more standard swing band -- 'the loudest goddamned band in the world," he said sardonically -- and over the next year shaped it into the seamless ensemble that recorded "Begin the Beguine" and would become what some consider the finest white orchestra of the period.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/31/MNGPTAJJJP1.DTL (1649 words)

	Big Band Music History Biography - Billy May
		May was soon contributing swinging arrangements described by the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz as “wailing, scooping saxophones voiced in thirds.” The best known of his arrangements for Barnet was for the hit recording of
		The tune became a standard of the swing era and inspired the Barnet band’s signature tune
		Additional jazz biographies and swing era photos are coming soon along with more big band music and jazz that swings via the Parker's Place
	www.swingmusic.net /Big_Band_Jazz_History_Biography_Billy_May.html (1613 words)

	THE ORIGINAL SWING ERA BIG BAND, New York Dance Band Orchestra
		It consists of three or four trumpets, two to four trombones, four or five saxophones, piano, bass, drum, guitar, and vocalist, and Bob on the clarinet.
		This group reproduces the sounds of the Swing Era Big Bands, from Sammy Kaye to Stan Kenton, using the arrangements as they were originally recorded.This group of from fourteen to eighteen musicians plays jazz festivals, concerts, street fairs, cruises, country clubs, and weddings.
		The arrangements are original, leaning to the Swing Era repertoire.
	www.bobjanuary.com /bband.htm (393 words)

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