GENRE · KNOWLEDGE GUIDE
Swing
- Genre family
- Jazz
- Starting recordings
- 4
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 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five.
GENRE FAMILY
Its place in the genre family
Parent genreJazz
Current genreSwing
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United States South · Swing
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
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KEY ARTISTS
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