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Cab Calloway

Bimbo's Initiation (Fleischer Studios cartoon, 1931) Swing You Sinners! (Fleischer Studios) Big Bad voodoo daddy - what's next. Duke Ellington. Glenn Miller-In The Mood. Charles Trenet - La Mer. Honeysuckle Rose,Fats Waller. Dave Brubeck - Take Five.

Mel Tormé-Blue Moon. Swing (jazz performance style) As swing jazz was dance music and coevolved together with swing dances such as the Lindy Hop, the term swing can be understood as music that makes you want to dance. Even though there is overlap between these concepts, music from any era of jazz or even from non-jazz music can be said to have "swing" (in the sense of having a strong rhythmic groove or feel). While some jazz musicians have called the concept of "swing" a subjective and elusive notion, they acknowledge that the concept is well-understood by experienced jazz musicians at a practical, intuitive level. Jazz players refer to "swing" as the sense that a jam session or live performance is really "cooking" or "in the pocket. " If a jazz musician states that an ensemble performance is "really swinging," this suggests that the performers are playing with a special degree of rhythmic coherence and "feel.

" Treadwell concludes his introduction/definition: We could go on and on. Blues shuffle or boogie played on guitar in E major[8] (

Louis Armstrong

Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald. Cleo Laine - Little Boat. Lizz Wright - Nature Boy. Fever - Peggy Lee. Angel Eyes (Frank Sinatra - with Lyrics)