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Jazz and the American Culture The History of Jazz Swing Cool Bebop Ragtime Swing The 30s and 40s belonged to Swing. During that classic era, most of the jazz groups were Big Bands. Derived from New Orleans jazz style. Swing was also dance music Although it was a collective sound, Swing also offered individual musicians a chance to improvise melodic, thematic solos which could at times be very complex. Cool Evolving directly from bop in the late 1940s and 1950s, Cools smoothed out mixture of bop and swing tones were again harmonic and dynamics were now softened. The ensemble arrangemen