Swing

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 Lous 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 Benny Goodman became hugely popular with younger dancers brought jazz into the
mainstream. It is from this period onwards that the swing style can be applied to many
jazz records and while opinions about how to define swing obviously vary, it is most
typified by the many jazz small groups that recorded from the 1930s onwards (examples are
Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Wing Manone's Orchestra, Lionel Hampton's Orchestra, and the
many records by the Benny Goodman Trio/Quartet/Sextet). The swing style began in the U.S.
but was quickly adopted by musicians worldwide who made recordings in their own countries
(UK examples would be Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots or Nat Gonella & His Georgians).