Swing music

style of jazz or musical genre based on the rhythmic pulse of music composed of pairs of eighth notes with a longer initial note and a shorter second note

single

American singer (1921-2016)

style of jazz performance

The Swing Youth () were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class students, but also including some in the working class. They admired the "American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler Youth (). They loosely structured themselves into “clubs” with names such as the Harlem Club, the OK Gang, and the Hot Club. This underground subculture, distinctly nonconformist with a focus on A

US big band led by Glenn Miller (1937-1942)

music genre and pop culture movement

The zazous were a subculture in France during World War II. They were young people expressing their individuality by wearing big or garish clothing (similar to the zoot suit fashion in America a few years before) and dancing wildly to swing jazz. Men wore large striped lumber jackets, while women wore short skirts, striped stockings and heavy shoes, and often carried umbrellas.

jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis

instrumental composed by Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grapelli

original film song written and composed by Sherman Brothers, from the 1967 Disney movie "The Jungle Book"

1953 novelty song

American big band and jazz orchestra