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: Jay McShann

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Jul 11 Saturday 11 July 2009 Today
Royal Crown Revue	Saint Rocke Hermosa Beach, CA, Los Angeles, United States 33.856013 -118.390496	1 person attending Add shout
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	Lake Superior Big… Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States 46.778035 -90.89351	Add shout
Jul 16 Thursday 16 July 2009
Wayne Newton at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino Wayne Newton	San Manuel Indian… Highland, United States 34.150382 -117.227316	Add shout
Jul 17 Friday 17 July 2009
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	Showcase Live Foxboro, Boston, United States 42.093279 -71.263611	Add shout
Jul 18 Saturday 18 July 2009
Matt Dusk	LLBean Discovery… Freeport, ME, United States 43.857236 -70.102819	1 person attending Add shout
Jul 22 Wednesday 22 July 2009
Squirrel Nut Zippers	Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, San Diego, United States 32.990941 -117.270629	2 people attending Add shout

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UmiNoUta wrote:
last week

Frank Sinatra???

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jefffq wrote:
last week

THIS IS A TRAGEDY maybe we need a '30s swing' tag?

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M0iJeJoue wrote:
last month

BlackEyedBoy wrote: Robbie Williams swing ?????? who the hell tagged that? well actually he got an album "Swing when you are winning", all songs are kinda jazz / swing there

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al0209 wrote:
last month

Witam wszystkich polskich fanów Michael'a Buble :) Domyślam się, że wielu z Was czeka na zobaczenie i usłyszenie właściciele tego nieziemskiego głosu w Polsce. Dlatego powinniśmy coś w tym celu zdziałać. http://board.michaelbuble.com/ - tutaj na forum - głównej strony Michael'a Buble proszę o jak najszybsze rejestrowanie! Musi nas się skupić na tym forum jak największa ilość osób, niech moderatorzy i inni użytkownicy zobaczą, że jesteśmy silną grupą. Chodzi o rozgłos na oficjalnej stronie. Postarajmy się zawiadomić jak największą liczbę osób, którym tak samo zależy na koncercie MB w Polsce! :) Uprzejmie proszę na początek zajrzeć i napisać coś TU : http://board.michaelbuble.com/index.php?showtopic=21549&pid=439803&st=0&#entry439803

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m877ster wrote:
last month

This swing tag is disappointing.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
April 2009

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Wonderland+Singers+and+Orchestra/_/In+The+Mood
BlackEyedBoy wrote:
April 2009

Robbie Williams swing ?????? who the hell tagged that?

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corruptboy wrote:
March 2009

Frank Sinatra swing? w a f lol

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Surfmonkey wrote:
February 2009

True. When most people think swing, they think the classic big band acts. Shaw, Ellington, Basie Goodman... those should be the meat and potatoes of this genre, supplemented by stuff like Calloway, Webb (and Ella), Henderson... even Kirk and Lunceford. A lot of what's getting tagged swing is actually dixieland, "trad" jazz and jazz inflected pop music (like Sinatra.) Too bad.

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deOso wrote:
February 2009

I totally agree about genre schooling

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-Huk- wrote:
December 2008

ничо не понял, но пох. свиг рулит!

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[deleted-user] wrote:
August 2008

rock & roll + swing = The Lance
SirAlecHendrix wrote:
August 2008

i'm wondering how people use the 'swing' tag, do they mean the jazz genre, the classic jazz era, the swing style within a lot of jazz music or some feeling in a tune whatever ? it's used all over the place, and it's of no use to play swing tag radio ... back to music school, fellow music lovers :-)

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