G-Swing | en

There was a time when the word swing was on everyones lips. It may mean nothing to you now, yet for ten years, from 1935 to 1945, jazz was the in thing in a big way. That was the Swing Era, that blessed epoch of the big bands, whose sounds enticed thousands onto vast dance floors the time when Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald were merely singers in the band, and when Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie could do no wrong. In its way, swing was already setting the hedonist and celebratory scene for a certain...