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It was on earlier on the West Coast and developed the audience that later led to Goodman's Palomar Ballroom triumph. Hines' style was a seminal influence on the styles of swing-era pianists Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Jess Stacy, Nat "King" Cole, Erroll Garner, Mary Lou Williams, and Jay McShann. Coleman Hawkins is sitting on the floor to the extreme left with Louis Armstrong above him to the right. Although they originated in different continents, similarities have often been noted between gypsy swing and Western swing]l, leading to various fusions. As the world began to recover fromeconomic depression, swing and swing-influenced music came to represent the latest trend in popular music.

A Swing revival occurred during the 1990s and 2000s led by Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Lavay Smith, and Brian Setzer. In a 1939 Downbeat interview, Duke Ellington expressed dissatisfaction with the creative state of swing music; [25] within a few years he and other bandleaders would be delving into more ambitious, and less danceable, forms of orchestral jazz and the creative forefront for soloists would be moving into smaller ensembles and bebop. Such loopholes existed because the cultural politics of the Third Reich vis-a-vis jazz and jazz-related music was characterized by the coexistence of contradictory and ambivalent measures, for which no unified strategy existed. Goodman's success with "hot" swing brought forth imitators and enthusiasts of the new style throughout the world of dance bands, which launched the "swing era" that lasted until 1946. Yet despite such bold activities, it must not be forgotten that many of the Swing Boys and Swing Girls died because of the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment.The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" Tommy Dorsey made a nod to the hot side by hiring jazz trumpeter and Goodman alumnus Bunny Berigan, then hiring Jimmie Lunceford's arranger Sy Oliver to spice up his catalog in 1939. Essen: der Kommission für Lied-, Musik- und Tanzforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde e. Some jazz critics such as Hugues Panassié held the polyphonic improvisation of New Orleans jazz to be the pure form of jazz, with swing a form corrupted by regimentation and commercialism.

Only through such varying motivations could the scorned jazz 'survive' in, of all places, the Nazi camps. This meant that it was only in Germany, with allowance for the annexed Austria, that the Swingjugend became a political matter. Swing-era repertoire included the Great American Songbook of Tin Pan Alley standards, band originals, traditional jazz tunes such as the " King Porter Stomp", with which the Goodman orchestra had a smash hit, and blues. There are several theories about its meaning, including that it conveyed a coded message to slaves, instructing them to escape. Music in the Twenties: The Jean Goldkette Orchestra, Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies 1:179–203, October 1976, DOI: 10.

But precautions had to be taken so that the performance of hated jazz melodies was not accidentally discovered by an overseer: 'Sometimes at night, after lights out, we were quite precocious and would cover the windows with our bed sheets and then we would sing.

The jazz combo of the clarinetist and saxophonist Bedrich 'Fritz' Weiss was one of the first music groups to be formed there.Swing מגיעים עם מנוע קטן, יעיל ומתקדם עם זרימת אוויר גבוהה וצריכת חשמל נמוכה, כך תוכלו לחסוך עד כ-50% מהוצאות החשמל על קירור ואוורור הבית. By means of such actions, the Swing Boys not only used jazz to retain their group identity in Moringen, but were also able to bring out their oppositional stance and to distinguish themselves from the rest of the prisoners. Other big jazz bands that drove the 1950s–60s revival include those led by Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Quincy Jones, and Oliver Nelson.

Or during recreational time, when there was no trouble brewing in the camp and it was unlikely that the SS would enter the camp. The Basie orchestra collectively and individually would influence later styles that would give rise to the smaller "jump" bands and bebop. The resurgent commercial success of Frank Sinatra with a mildly swinging backup during the mid-1950s solidified the trend.

During the Henderson band's extended residency at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, it became influential on other big bands. Jean Goldkette's Victor Recording Orchestra featured many of the top white jazz musicians of the day including Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Frank Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Lang, and Joe Venuti. Bennie Moten and the Kansas City Orchestra showcased the riff-propelled, solo-oriented form of swing that had been developing in the hothouse of Kansas City. During the Weimar Republic, jazz conquered Germany and in the process became a symbol of the Roaring Twenties. Despite all the campaigns of defamation and prohibition, as well as the incarceration of some jazz musicians and jazz fans,it cannot be said that there was no German jazz scene in the Third Reich.