Swing Music
Swing is a danceable style of jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, usually played by big bands with a strong, bouncing rhythm.
The beat has a lilting feel, driven by walking bass and steady drums, while horn sections play catchy riffs and soloists improvise over them. Swing developed in the United States in the early 1930s and was the country's most popular music until the mid-1940s. It is smoother and more arranged than the New Orleans jazz before it, and more dance-minded than the faster, more complex bebop that followed.
Artists it is known for: Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw.
- Family
- Jazz & Blues
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, early 1930s
- Also called
- swing, swing jazz
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 2,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have swing music among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Swing Music artists
Frank Sinatra
Ella Fitzgerald
Dean Martin
Billie Holiday
Louis Armstrong
Caravan Palace
Duke Ellington
Bobby Darin
The swing music artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.