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This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. Swing. Anita O'Day (1919–2006) Art Tatum (1909–1956) Artie Shaw (1910–2004) Ben Webster (1909–1973)
Swing revival musicians (15 P) Pages in category "Swing musicians" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Singers in the genre of swing music. Pages in category "Swing singers" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Swing bands and sales continued to decline from 1953 to 1954. In 1955, a list of top recording artists from the previous year was publicly released. The list revealed that big band sales had decreased since the early 1950s. [37] However, big band music saw a revival in the 1950s and 1960s.
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
Pages in category "Swing guitarists" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Howard Alden;
The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak in the 1990s. . The music was generally rooted in the big bands of the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but it was also greatly influenced by rockabilly, boogie-woogie, the jump blues of artists such as Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and ...
During the 1942–44 strike, the War Department approached the union and requested the production of V-Discs, a set of records containing new recordings for soldiers, thereby boosting the rise of new artists. [37] Also, by the late 1940s, swing was no longer the dominant style of jazz musicians. [38]