Louis Armstrong
Bobby Darin
The Rat Pack
Ella Fitzgerald
now of course there's more singers that popped into my ehad but these are all linked in a certain way and I'll say how at the end of the review.
Now Swing and Jazz music was around for a very long time it was these two genres of music that relaly changed the history of music in my opinion. In more than one way.
Jazz and Swing are both alike in certain ways, they can both hae upbeat tunes and downbeat tunes, Jazz involved more use of the musical instrumens then the vocals but that did not stop the artists from singing, Swing too had its fair share of musical instruments going in the background. Both of these things people had heard before but much differently, slower, more depressing tunes. For example the Blues.
The Blues started off as a slow tune mainly played on the piano but as music prgressed and Jazz was introduced the tune slowly became more upbeat and more notes wer eincluded as well as more insturments.
Jazz introduced a orm of singing known as Scat. Now there's a rumour of how Scat all started off, a certain Jazz singer got up on stage ready to sing a song, but forgot the words and when the instruments started playing made up noises and sounds, Scat could have been countedas singing jibberish really as they wer enot REAL words, but the sounds made became something themselves and even fit into the tunes.
Infact here's Ella fitzgerald scatting
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU
Today people may consider that the most random thing to be heard on a stage, but back then THAT was a respected form of music and art.
Jazz clubs were open specifically for people like Ella to scat or play their insturments, the most recgnised insturment of Jazz is considered to be the saxaphone. azz, like other forms of music was a way of letting out emotions and was indeed more emotional then swing.
That's where the differenc eis
Swing was always knownas being upbeat and to have a kicking tune that everybody danced to.
the years where everybody was walking around in suits and fedoras...THAT was because of swing. Music effects people in all sorts of ways, including fashion...hell look at the eighties the strangest music videos known to man created the strangest fashion we've ever had.
So when songs come out with kicking tunes and lively beats, coming to jazz and swing clubs, and places like Las Vegas which was considered one of the classiest cities to play in at the time along with New York. The fashion of the swing singers was classy, and people wanted to be like the singers, the era of suits and fedoras had swept in when Swing came to town and it took the music world by storm. Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack ar eprobably the most remembered of that era but we need not forget the others that made the history of the classiest era humans have ever been in. The nightclubs filled with smoke from peoples cigars, the old fifties restaurants with the booths that said which celebrity has sat there. Posters of swing singers stuck on the side of theatres. The era of swing was my favourite era of music, for it wasn't just an era of music...it was an era of class.
Now the simularties between all of them singers...they have all sang one song that has happened to be my favourite out of all Swig songs.
Mack The Knife
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QGdwQf2a0W0 (Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Buffett)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=My9B4uQYJn4 (Louis Armstrong)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDs_N3kGQk (Bobby Darin)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ouF4J45Mn5s (Ella Fitzgerald)
.....Swinging B)