JAZZ SWING PRESENTATION

Jazz Swing

By Pablo

Introduction

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What is Jazz Swing?

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a style of jazz that originated in the United States towards the end of the 1920s, becoming one of the most popular and successful musical genres in the country during the 1930s.

TIMELINE

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1940s

1935s

1920s

Bebop

The Swing era

Roots

1960s

1950s

Cross Genere Swing

Swinging POP

1920

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Roots

Jazz Swing started as a derivation of jazz, but it was created as a more smooth style for dancing

1935

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The swing era

swing, in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940s—years sometimes called the swing era. Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musicians' attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats.

1940

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Bebop

By the late 1940s, the music had developed a profusion of styles, all of them still played, but just one of them—bebop—challenging and reinterpreting the jazz tradition in a way that would prove enduring.

1950

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Swinging pop

As a phenomenon of the 50's, then, jazz swing presented itself as a distinctive combination of high and low, the esoteric and the popular.

1960

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Cross genere swing

In country music Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican, and Bob Wills combined elements of swing and blues to create a Western swing. Mullican left the Cliff Bruner band to pursue solo career that included many songs that maintained a swing structure. Artists like Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel have continued the swing elements of country music.