Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music ... British big bands of the 1930s.

And he was influenced by “swing” music—an offshoot of jazz that was sweeping the nation in the 1930s.

In the early 1940s, the modern jazz idiom ... sought to break free from the standardized, repetitive music of the 1920s and ...

It also features jazz ensembles performing popular tunes from the Swing Era. “Going back to the 1940s and hearing this music live in this room where this music was played decades ago is really ...