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| | Swing (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | They are characterised by the swing rhythm already at that time common in jazz music, and a lively style which is harder to define but distinctive. | | | The second change that occurred as swing music increased in popularity outside the black community, was, to some extent, an increasing pressure on musicians and band leaders to soften (some would say dumb-down) the music to cater to a more staid and conservative, Anglo-American audience. | | | In later decades, the popular, sterilized, mass-market form of swing music would often, and unfortunately, be the first taste that younger generations might be exposed to, which often led to it begin labeled something akin to 'old fogey big-band dance music'. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(genre)
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| | Jazzitude Jazz History 3: Swing & Big Bands |
| | Swing music is a style, just like dixieland and bebop are styles of music played by certain groups of musicians at a certain time in history. | | | 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. | | | In other words, the swing era was the last time that jazz music and American popular music were one and the same. |
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http://www.jazzitude.com/histswing.htm
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| | Between the Wars: The Swing Era |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Historians have seen in "the swing era" not just music but culture, a distinctive, generational culture of swing jazz with its own dances, clothing styles, and most notably, slang. |
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/swing.html
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| | Chapter Excerpt: The Swing Book by Degen Pener |
| | Swing was as important for its cultural resonance as it was for its musical achievement. | | | Looked at historically, swing was jazz music played by big bands primarily for dancing. | | | Swing, of course, is hardly just a musical concept. |
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http://www.twbookmark.com/books/98/0316698024/chapter_excerpt9534.html
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| | Swing Music Net - Big Band Music / Jazz History |
| | The language of swing is still spoken today by a number of talented latter-day jazz musicians and modern swing bands. | | | 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 period of the 1930s and 1940s is thus far the only age in history when the popularity of jazz eclipsed all other genres of music in the U.S. It is an epoch known as the big band era, and during it swing music was king. |
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http://www.swingmusic.net
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| | Jazz to Swing |
| | Instrumentation in swing bands includes trumpets and trombones which gives swing music a brighter, brassier sound than the more mellow jazz. | | | The growing musical form soon merged with the concert band and society dance band styles that were popular elsewhere during the twenties to create the big bands of the Swing Era. | | | More than jazz, swing music is arranged for the dancers, whose artistic input is responsible for forming swing music almost as much as the music influenced the |
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/music/jazz2swing.htm
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| | Music Info |
| | Swing was dance music, yet it offered individual musicians a chance to improvise musically fresh, technically complex solos. | | | The golden age of the Big Band era, from about 1935-1949, was unique in that it was the music listened to by all generations in the 1930's and 40's, young and old alike. | | | 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. |
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http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/HKSDC/Music.html
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| | Swing Era (from jazz) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musicians' attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats. | | | 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 rhythms defy any narrower definition, and the music has never been notated exactly. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-203232
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| | Swing Era (big bands)-- History of Jazz |
| | From a purely musical standpoint, the Swing Era is the time of large dance orchestras--the "big bands" of the period. | | | 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. | | | In a swing band, the melodic character of a tune tends to be clear. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~skd9r/MUSI212_new/assignments/Swing_bands.html
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| | The Historical Evolution of the Jazz Trombone: Part Two |
| | In the Swing Era, the majority of the music was arranged previous to the performance, due to the larger nature of the band. | | | 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. | | | As with Dixieland, dancing was the primary focus of the music. |
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http://www.trombone.org/articles/library/evojazz2.asp
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| | Swing Era Photos Of Famous Jazz Musicians |
| | 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. | | | The band recorded about 20 sides during the Big Band Era in 1940 and then drifted off into obscurity. | | | They were both later hired by Cab Calloway and became part of his big band swing outfit. |
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http://www.swingmusic.net/Swing_Era_Pics.html
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| | Swing Era: Style |
| | Examination of stylistic musical criticism reveals that the notion that African-American musical forms provided a "raw material" which could not be fully recognized without the intervention of white swing musicians or white scholars studying swing was not new to the "white jazz biopic" of the late '40s and early '50s. | | | Many of the distinctive characteristics of Swing involved the way the music was communicated and absorbed. | | | Such dismissals had been a part of swing from the genre's birth. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/estyle.html
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| | Swing Music |
| | 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. | | | The entries are organized by date, and most consist simply of lists of the jazz songs broadcasted on the radio for a given day, along with who was playing the music when on what station. |
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http://goldset.hf4l.com/?p=swing+music
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| | Amazon.com: The Swing Era : The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz): Books: Gunther Schuller |
| | 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. | | | In contrast to the proliferating reminiscences and social histories of the big band era, Schuller's concern is purely with the music. | | | Moreover, one really needs to be able to listen to the described music to enjoy the book, but this is also its strong point: one becomes really eager to listen to the jazz described, often with 'new ears' provided by the author. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195071409?v=glance
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| | Gary Giddins conversation on big bands on Jerry Jazz Musician |
| | The big band era was one of the most important periods in the history of music. | | | 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. | | | When we think of the big band era now, we think of the great bands that survived because they had enduring musical interest, and most of them were successful. |
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http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=giddins-underrated4.html
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| | Swing Era Artists |
| | Holiday's father was a guitar and banjo player in Fletcher Henderson's band, and she entered the world of professional music as a teenager, signing with Columbia Records in 1933. | | | 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 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. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html
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| | UK HEPKATS SWING DANCE CLUB |
| | 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. | | | Swing Dancing at Jim and Jack's On the River, 3456 River Rd., Cincy, OH; 7-10 pm. | | | At this dance you'll hear a number of songs that are considered swing-era classics. |
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http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/HKSDC
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: J: Jazz: Swing |
| | 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. | | | Australian Dance Bands 1925-1970 - A discussion forum/website for all who love the Australian Dance Bands from this fabulous era. | | | Soundies - A Chicago based music label specializing in the development of previously unreleased music from the Golden Age of American entertainment. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/J/Jazz/Swing
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| | Swing Descriptions |
| | Swing can be used to a wide variety of music such as Western Honky-Tonk, Big Band, Rock, and Oldies, as well as to the new fabulous new 1990's Swing Music featuring bands like the Cherry Poppin Daddies, Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer, and many more! | | | Swing styling is usually more limited and swing can be danced more comfortably to faster music. | | | However as a serious dance, the "Shaggie Jitterbug" lacks style and grace because it has no relationship to the music. |
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http://www.ssqq.com/information/descswng.htm
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| | ARTIE SHAW: 1910-2004 / Bandleader was last of the swing-era giants |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | But his phenomenally successful 1938 recording of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" made the handsome musician a pop idol, and his band the hottest in America. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/31/MNGPTAJJJP1.DTL
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| | Welcome to The BigBands Database Plus |
| | For awhile, other music was to take the place of the great bands, but with the new millenium, a new generation has re-discovered Swing and Jazz. | | | The BigBands Database: An ongoing project dedicated to Bands; to Jazz and to Swing History, and to the music now known to the world as "American Popular Song". | | | Loyal and enthusiatic fans followed all the 'doings' of their favorite band. |
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http://www.nfo.net
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| | Popular Music Slang Expressions |
| | Hepcat Originally a musician in a Swing Band. | | | Originally, the dancers did "hop" to the music, but later, it was refined somewhat. | | | Rock and Roll Describes the old 1950's music, but originally slang for sex. |
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http://nfo.net/usa/slang.html
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| | Swing Era Music |
| | This is their best CD - it celebrates the legend Frankie Manning and has great music for swing dancing. | | | Their fabulous third cd has fifteen tracks that include ten of Bill Elliott’s brand-new original songs and five classic tunes from the first swing era. | | | On top of that, the CD includes scorching live versions of old favorites like The Best Things, Struttin With Kate, and Mildred that top their original recordings. |
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http://www.nostalgictreasures.com/Swing_Era/Swing_Music.html
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| | Count Basie |
| | 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. | | | Some of their greatest songs include "One O'Clock Jump" and "Taxi War Dance." Despite the talent present throughout the band, they had to split up due to financial reasons in 1950. | | | Nonetheless, he continued to put on a few more concerts. |
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http://www.duke.edu/~stc2
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| | Swing |
| | A web page devoted to the historical culture, music, and dance of the Swing Era. |
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/swingmain.htm
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| | Philadelphia Swing Dance Society |
| | Choreographer for and a dancer with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, from the original Savoy Ballroom, the Cotton Club, etc., back in the 1930's, Frankie is now in his ninties (yes, his 90's!!) -- and he is still dancing AND STILL TEACHING!! | | | This band performs regularly in New Hope, PA and is very popular with swing dancers there!) @ the Commodore Barry Club | | | This is a great band to dance to! |
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http://www.swingdance.org
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| | Lee Evans Arranges Big Band Hits of the Swing Era Sheet Music |
| | Digital Lee Evans Arranges Big Band Hits of the Swing Era Sheet Music is downloadable and printable now! | | | Find more sheet music titles like: Lee Evans Arranges Big Band Hits of the Swing Era | | | BOOKMARK Lee Evans Arranges Big Band Hits of the Swing Era Sheet Music! |
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http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/Sheet-Music/BKHL9089-SONGS.html
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| | The Swing Era - 1936-1947 Sheet Music |
| | Find more sheet music titles like: The Swing Era - 1936-1947 | | | BOOKMARK The Swing Era - 1936-1947 Sheet Music! | | | EMAIL The Swing Era - 1936-1947 Sheet Music! |
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http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/Sheet-Music/BKHL240073-SONGS.html
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| | Jazz Standards Books: (The Swing Era: The Development of ...) |
| | Appendix 1 chronologically charts the songs and the bands while Appendix 2 illustrates “swing” visually based on volume. | | | He also covers the great black bands, the great white bands, important soloists, territory bands, and small groups, ending with a chapter called “Things to Come.” He includes some charts in the body of the book. | | | Schuller’s second volume in The History of Jazz has been praised for its scholarship and informed perspective. |
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http://www.jazzstandards.com/Bookstore/Book120.htm
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| | Songsearch: Buy Swing Era Music CDs |
| | Swing Era Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles | | | You can also look through our entire catalog of over 800,000 titles alphabetically by artist name or album title. | | | The Video Is Completed With Different 'soundies' Showcasing Other Swing Masters Such As Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa And More. |
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http://www.songsearch.com/title/s/swing_era.html
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| | The Swing Era |
| | Among the most popular bands were those led by Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. | | | Utilized almost exclusively for dancing, the music of the big bands borrowed heavily from the techniques introduced by Henderson. | | | As a counterpart of the highly arranged orchestrations of these New York-based bands, a Kansas City swing style developed under the influence of Count Basie and Bennie Moten that emphasized a blues vocabulary and form as well as tempos of breakneck speed and an overwhelming use of riffs. |
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http://www.nw-cybermall.com/JazzWorld/swing_era.htm
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| | Tower Records - Peggy Lee: Swing Era |
| | Peggy Lee is captured performing in the swing era on this fascinating document of a highly memorable time for jazz music. | | | Additional Categories: Pop Music, Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Jazz Vocal, Swing | | | Much of this material is culled from "soundies" -- short films made for the consumption of moviegoers in the 1950s and 1960s. |
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http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2994070
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| | Credits |
| | Great book about jazz drummers by a jazz drummer. | | | Probably the best bio ever written on Benny. | | | Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz - The Swing Years by Burt Korall. |
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http://www.drummerman.net/credits.html
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| | ANTHOLOGY, SWING ERA BIG BAND |
| | During World War II, swing era big bands developed into a veritable conservatory of American music. | | | : SWINGING ON A GRAPEVINE • BOBBY SHERWOOD AND HIS ORCH. |
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http://www.audioroots.com/musique/anthology_64.htm
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| | 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. | | | West Coast Swing is another form of swing dance usually done to slower, bluesier music. | | | 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. |
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http://www.swingdanceshop.com
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| | Moonlight Swing |
| | With 20 performers including vocal solos and group vocals, the band takes you back to the 1930's/40's as each performance is itself a living-history experience with emphasis on the music of bandleader Glenn Miller including his famous Army Air Forces stateside service band! | | | "Moonlight Swing" is a not-for-profit Swing Era big band. | | | Please right click and select "save target as" |
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http://www.moonlightswing.org
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| | Vickie Smith - Vocalist - Swing, Jazz, Latin |
| | Activities Director, Berkeley College, NJ Musical Tributes to the Greats of Swing and Jazz | | | "She can get into a song and she can swing... | | | "The 'Voices of Jazz' program brought the nuances of the jazz and swing era to life for our students and staff members...Smith not only entertains, she also educates her audience." - Richard McCullogh, Student |
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http://www.vickiesmith.com
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| | Sheet Music Plus - Unforgettable Swing Era Classics |
| | Sheet Music Plus - Unforgettable Swing Era Classics | | | Features Lee Evans' incomparable piano solo arrangements of 16 standards: April in Paris * How Deep Is the Ocean * Moonlight Becomes You * Stella by Starlight * Tangerine * Thanks for the Memory * To Each His Own * With a Song in My Heart * and more. | | | Swing Era Hits Lee Evans Arranges By L Evans... |
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http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/item.html?item=2893846&id=79590
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| | Benny Goodman - Swing Era DVD |
| | Music Video - Classical, Big Band, Music Video, Pop Music Videos, Live Performances, Jazz, Swing Music | | | The work of Benny Goodman revolutionized jazz, bringing swing to the masses, and entering the history books as a result. | | | This release offers some "soundies"-style material, which features an incredible array of special guests, including Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and many others. |
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http://cduniverse.com/search/xx/movie/pid/6751659/a/Benny+...+-+Swing+Era.htm
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| | The Bebop Shop Swing Era Series |
| | Swing Era: Sarah Vaughan (DVD: Idem Home Video) | | | Swing Era: Benny Goodman (DVD: Idem Home Video) | | | This outstanding DVD features many of the most important artists from the heyday of the big band era. Such giants as Billy Eckstine, Gene Ammons, Andy Kirk, John Kirby, Bing Crosby, Tex Beneke, Johnny Long, Ozzie Nelson and Johnny Messner can be seen here leading their orchestras in superlative fashion. |
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http://www.thebebopshop.com/acatalog/Swing_Era_Series.html
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| | Big City Swing - Swing Dancing in Chicago and Beyond |
| | Holiday Party - Sunday, December 11th - with live music | | | Fill in and submit the form below to keep abreast of our performances and events, as well as other exciting news from the Swing community. | | | Big City Swing - Swing Dancing in Chicago and Beyond |
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http://www.bigcityswing.com
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| | George Shearing - Swing Era - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Get 10 free ringtones for Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile or AT&T. Download the latest songs, sounds, games and wallpapers directly to your phone. | | | A legend from the swing era of jazz, George Shearing is featured here through a variety of sources. | | | Sponsored listings for George Shearing - Swing Era |
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http://www.smarter.com/movies-4/product/george_shearing_-_swing_era-212841
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| | Swing Era |
| | This was a great CD, except that Gene Ammons is only featured on ONE song. | | | Search for Swing Era in Usenet Discussion Groups | | | - Swing Era: Billy Eckstine/Gene Ammons - Rhythm in a Riff |
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http://www.pricegig.com/pxxB0000A5BU8.html
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