Era from jazz swinging

Rockabilly Music and Its Makers. In , Billie Holiday died of a kidney ailment. By the mid forties swing had begun to decline in popularity. The manpower requirements for big swing bands placed a burden on the scarce resources available for touring and were impacted by the military draft. Swing arrangements often emphasized the reed section to carry the melody, with trumpets providing accents and highlights. The contributions to the demise of Swing both directly due to the war and also from the internal conflict of its ideology overshadow other factors that might have been involved. Track Listing - Disc 1.

In big bands, rhythm sections fused into a unified rhythmic front: This friction, along with the presence of Roy Eldridge , certainly helped to spark things up a bit both in the studio and on-stage. Goodman's success with "hot" swing brought forth imitators and enthusiasts of the new style throughout the world of dance bands, which launched the "swing era" that lasted until Nat King Cole followed Sinatra into pop music, bringing with him a similar combination of swing and ballads. Influences incorporated into it include Louis Jordan and Louis Prima. The arrangements also had a smoother rhythmic sense than the ragtime-influenced arrangements that were the more typical "hot" dance music of the day.

Handy wrote that "prominent white orchestra leaders, concert singers and others are making commercial use of Negro music in its various phases. As is so often the case in jazz, there are confusing exceptions to this general outline. Some "progressive" big bands such as those led by Stan Kenton and Boyd Raeburn stayed oriented towards jazz, but not jazz for dancing. The Goodman band's Carnegie Hall Concert turned into a summit of swing, with guests from the Basie and Ellington bands invited for a jam session after the Goodman band's performance. As each piece headed toward its climax, the band erupted in an ecstatic wail.