Duke Ellington's original 14-member band
Jazz bandleader Duke Ellington's original 14-member band included such musicians as cornetist Rex Stewart, trombonist Lawrence Brown, baritone saxophonist Harry Carney, and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges.
swing
music
swing, in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940sāyears sometimes called the swing era. Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musiciansā attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats. Swing rhythms defy any narrower definition, and the music has never been notated exactly. Swing is sometimes considered a partial dilution of the jazz tradition because it organized musicians into...
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