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: Courir les Rues

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Nov 30 Monday 30 November 2009
Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks at Hammerstein Ballroom
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Hammerstein Ballroom
New York NY, United States
40.752477 -73.994094

4 people attended
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Dec 1 Tuesday 1 December 2009 Today
That's Amore at Chevrolet Centre
That's Amore
Chevrolet Centre
Youngstown, United States
41.095799 -80.649176

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Christabel and The Jons Mucky Duck
Houston TX, United States
29.732667 -95.417089

1 person attending
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Dec 3 Thursday 3 December 2009
That's Amore at Rialto Square Theatre
That's Amore
Rialto Square…
Joliet, United States
41.526026 -88.081518

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Dec 4 Friday 4 December 2009
Tony Bennett Wellmont Theatre
Montclair, New Jersey, New York, United States
40.812586 -74.216286

1 person attending
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Dec 5 Saturday 5 December 2009
Tony Bennett Meyerhoff Symphony…
Baltimore MD, United States
39.303995 -76.61877

3 people attending
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