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Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing represents the most famous era of jazz
Fletcher Henderson (middle) with his orchestra in 1925. Coleman Hawkins is sitting on the floor to the extreme left with Louis Armstrong above him to the right.
Benny Goodman, one of the first swing bandleaders to achieve widespread fame
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Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
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…soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Fletcher Henderson and Benny Goodman was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, known as the swing era, when people were dancing the Lindy Hop. The verb "to swing…
Goodman in 1942
Goodman's swing fans in Oakland, California, in 1940
Goodman with Christian in a recording studio, April 1941