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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.
During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.
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 the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that have survived beyond that era include Charleston , Balboa , Lindy Hop , and Collegiate Shag .
Standards from these sessions include Shorter's "Footprints" (1966) and Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance" (1966). In Brazil, a new style of music called bossa nova evolved in the late 1950s. The free jazz movement, coming to prominence in the late 1950s, spawned very few standards. Free jazz's unorthodox structures and performance techniques ...
BBC Northern Dance Orchestra - swing music; Charlie Barnet Big Band - jazz, swing; Count Basie Orchestra - jazz, swing; Beantown Swing Orchestra - swing; Louie Bellson; Tex Beneke Orchestra; Berlin Jazz Orchestra; Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra – free jazz; Bill Berry; Big Band Jazz de México; The Birdland Big Band - jazz
1 – Alvin Burroughs, American swing jazz drummer (born 1911). September. 5 – Al Killian, American jazz trumpeter and occasional bandleader (born 1916). 15 – Dol Dauber, Czech violinist, bandleader, composer, and music arranger (born 1894). October. 23 – Al Jolson, American singer, comedian and actor (born 1886). Unknown date
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Developments in dance orchestras and jazz music culminated in swing music during the early 1930s. It brought to fruition ideas originated with Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Jean Goldkette. The swing era also was precipitated by spicing up familiar commercial, popular material with a Harlem-oriented flavor ...