Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.
Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.The danceable swing style of bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945. (wikipedia.org)
01. Duke Ellington - Take The 'A' Train (4:38)
02. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher (3:35)
03. Erskine Hawkins - Tuxedo Junction (3:17)
04. Oliver Nelson - Creole Love Call (4:56)
05. Bennie Moten - Moten Swing (3:24)
06. Benny Carter - Babalu (3:09)
07. Sidney Bechet - Petit Fleur (3:19)
08. Gil Evans Orchestra - King Porter Stomp (3:54)
09. Count Basie - Robbins Nest (3:07)
10. Duke Ellington - Concerto For Cootie (3:20)
11. Tito Puente - Birdland After Dark (4:38)
12. Lionel Hampton - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (3:16)
13. Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul (3:01)
14. Shorty Rogers - Blues Express (4:12)
15. Louis Armstrong - Back O' Town Blues (4:15)
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