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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.
For nearly half a century, the Count Basie Orchestra was on top of the heap. These five albums are among the best displays of that excellence.
"Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. As a human being she was sweet, s...
1959 is one of the greatest years ever for jazz albums but for “Invisible Man’ novelist Ralph Ellison the Golden Age at Minton’s in Harlem was already long gone.
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