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3 days ago · Jazz was propelled commercially mostly by 12-to-15 piece big bands, usually with both a male and female vocalist, in a style that became known as swing during the 1930s. Swing was built around highly rhythmic riffs with strong soloists providing “breaks” or moments of spirited improvisation against backdrops of arranged composition.
3 days ago · "Lindy Hop" refers to this particular dance done and Swing was the music they would dance too. The term "Swing" is now commonly used to include many styles of dance: Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Balboa, Shag, East and West coast swing, Boogie Woogie, and has also inspired Jive, Rock and Roll, Ceroc, Le-Roc with regional differences in each dance family.
3 days ago · Now 57, Marsalis’ Swing Symphony is his third effort in the grand form. As might be expected, this hour-long, seven-movement work, combining the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with the St. Louis Symphony, generally tilts closer to the jazz end of the musical continuum in this live recording from 2018.
The Truth of Swing Music Currently. Hey Ross (and the larger dropout community), the swing revival is already happening. Post Modern Jukebox is playing to sold out crowds with their swing versions of Taylor Swift, and Imagine Dragons, and Green Day (yes, even Green Day has become swing!).
5 days ago · Mary Lou Williams (born May 8, 1910, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died May 28, 1981, Durham, N.C.) was a jazz pianist who performed with and composed for many of the great jazz artists of the 1940s and ’50s. Williams received early instruction from her mother, a classically trained pianist.
6 days ago · Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, [2] mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
