The Swing style developed in the 1930s and should not be used for earlier records, such as 1920s jazz. While the Swing style has its roots in the 1920s, as jazz developed due to the emergence of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, it took some time for the many different regional jazz styles typical of the 1920s to evolve into the more unified and sophisticated style known as Swing. Eventually, the “swing craze” of the mid-1930s, when big bands like…
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