Jazz quickly replaced the blues as American popular music, in the form of big band swing, a kind of dance music from the early 1930s.

He was key in the transition from jump blues and big band swing to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

Lorez sings the band swings (King, 1959)

The band swings, and it'll be joined by Grupo Caribe, a merengue band.

The group's base is country, but they pepper it with a format-busting blend of mariachi, big band swing, blues and early-Beatles rock.

Small combos to big bands will perform styles ranging from Dixieland to bop to traditional big band swing.

Working regularly around New York, he developed a reputation as a player who could make a band swing hard.

In "Knights Are Brave and Strong," the genre is 1940's big band swing.

Mo Knows Songwriters is a popular weekly crooner event, but you'll also see acoustic sets and all-out big band swing on other nights.

The first period occurred in the 1950s when Sun Ra's music evolved from big band swing into the outer-space-themed "cosmic jazz" for which he was best known.