Swing

Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Swing uses a strong anchoring rhythm section which supports a lead section that can include brass instruments, including trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets or stringed instruments including violin and guitar; medium to fast tempos; and a “lilting” swing time rhythm. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Duke Ellington

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Tony BennettConcert Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
San Francisco, United States
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Wednesday 12 June 2013
Tony BennettConcert Cuthbert Amphitheater
Eugene, OR, United States
44.04941 -123.092728
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Sunday 16 June 2013
Tony BennettConcert McMenamins Historic Edgefield Manor
Troutdale, Portland, United States
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Sunday 23 June 2013
Caravan PalaceConcert Brighton Music Hall
Boston MA, Boston, United States
42.3529 -71.132613

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Tuesday 25 June 2013
Caravan PalaceConcert TLA / Theatre of the Living Arts
Philadelphia, United States
39.941481 -75.148652

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Thursday 27 June 2013
Caravan PalaceConcert Irving Plaza
New York NY, United States
40.73484 -73.988376

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