Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.
Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm.
The verb "to swing" is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong rhythmic "groove" or drive.
JazzMatazz Music Band are: Maria Vassilopoulou, Apostolos Papapetros, Dimitris Manolopoulos, Michalis Kraounakis, Pavlos Katsivelis
Photos are from the Savoy Ballroom Party organised by the Athens Swing Cats
