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  2. Swing revival - Wikipedia

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    The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak in the 1990s. . The music was generally rooted in the big bands of the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but it was also greatly influenced by rockabilly, boogie-woogie, the jump blues of artists such as Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and ...

  3. Swing music - Wikipedia

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    Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.

  4. Postmodern Jukebox - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern Jukebox is known for reworking popular modern music into different vintage genres, especially early 20th century forms such as swing and jazz. They have toured North America, Europe, and Australia; often simultaneously due to the extensive discography and the numerous artists and performers involved in the project.

  5. Electro swing - Wikipedia

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    Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house and hip hop. [1] Successful examples of the genre create a modern and dance-floor focused sound that is more readily accessible to the modern ear, but that also retains the energetic excitement of live brass and early swing recordings.

  6. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Dixieland music or New Orleans jazz, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or early jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. Stylistically, it is essentially a form of Ragtime typically transposed for brass band, banjo or clarinet. 1900s -> Electro swing [3] Modern interpretation of swing ...

  7. List of big bands - Wikipedia

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    Hard Rubber Orchestra - modern jazz, new compositions, multimedia performances; Erskine Hawkins; Ted Heath and his Music - jazz; Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra - swing music, jazz; Matthew Herbert Big Band; Woody Herman; Art Hickman; Mark Hilburn and His Orchestra; Tiny Hill and the Hilltoppers; Earl Hines Orchestra - jazz, swing music ...

  8. List of new jack swing artists - Wikipedia

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    This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]

  9. New jack swing - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] Some music critics said Full Force's "Alice, I Want You Just for Me" (1985) was the first new jack swing song, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis called Full Force and said Alice was their favorite song, and their favorite group was Full Force. [9] After that, Jam & Lewis produced Janet Jackson's digital R&B album, Control (1986).