GENRE · KNOWLEDGE GUIDE
Swing
- Genre family
- Jazz
- 1940s recordings
- 6
ORIGIN · SOUND · PEOPLE
Meet Swing
Swing is a branch of the Jazz family, with its own performance and recording traditions.
The clearest way to understand Swing is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.
Begin with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.
GENRE FAMILY
Its place in the genre family
Parent genreJazz
Current genreSwing
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
6 recordings1940s starting recordings
01Fine Dinner1940 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab 02Pickin’ the Cabbage1940 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab 03Bye Bye Blues1941 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab 04Bird of Paradise1949 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab 05You Stole My Wife You Horsethief1949 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab 06Say When1949 · Bebop · jazzOpen in new tab
KEY ARTISTS
1940s artists
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
1940s albums
LOCAL GRAPH
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