Swing Band
Alyn Shipton · Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World · 2003
The term ‘swing band’ is used most frequently as a synonym for ‘big band,’ but it has a slightly wider meaning, encompassing small groups while excluding those big bands that specialize in post-bop styles of jazz. The term ‘swing’ came into use at the end of the 1920s to describe an emergent style o