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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. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.
The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" (1940) and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II , a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.
East Coast Swing being danced in Montreal in 2022. East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including: big band, rock and roll, rockabilly, and boogie-woogie. Yerrington and Outland equated East Coast Swing to the New Yorker in 1961.
The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles. Haworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7890-0914-2. Sudhalter, Richard M. (2003). Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-516898-3. Tucker, Mark (1995). Ellington: The Early Years. University of Illinois Press.
The name given to the renewed interest in swing music from the 1930s and 40s. Many neo-swing bands practiced contemporary fusions of swing, jazz, and jump blues with rock, punk rock, ska, and ska punk music or had roots in punk, ska, ska punk, and alternative rock music. 1990s -> Jazz noir [4] A form of slow or erratic contemporary jazz.
Kern originally composed the song as a fast tap-dance number for his 1927 musical Show Boat, and converted it into a ballad for Roberta. The song is particularly favored by piano players; Teddy Wilson made an early influential piano version in 1941. [96] "Stars Fell on Alabama" [10] [97] was written by composer Frank Perkins and lyricist ...
Swing time is a time feel in jazz music. Swing Time may also refer to: Swing Time, a 1936 movie directed by George Stevens starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Swing Time, a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith; Swing Time Records, a record label active in the 1940s and '50s
Bebop – a fast-paced style of jazz popular in the 1940s and 1950s that replaced the dance-oriented swing music; known for its complex chord progressions, instrumental virtuosity, and the predominant role of the rhythm section. Beguine/Biguine – a style from French territory in the Caribbean, Martinique island and precursor of jazz.