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Swing music is a form of jazz that developed in the early 1930's and became very popular by 1935. Swing is simply just a different feel to the eighth notes in a song. Instead of playing just straight 1&2& patterns you give it a little "swing." Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945.

Swing, like jazz, was created by African Americans and had a great impact on the American culture as a whole. Swing bands abandoned the string orchestra and wanted to use "edgier" arrangements that emphasized woodwind and horn parts. One particular instrument that was more or less introduced with Jazz was the saxophone.

Charlie Parker was an American saxophonist and a composer. Parker played a leading role in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuoso technique, and improvisation based on harmonic structure. Louis Daniel Armstrong was also a famous jazz musician. He was a jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans. Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music towards solo performances. He was very talented at "scat singing" when you sing sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided.