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  1. Swing music is a jazz style popular in the 
  2. 1930s-40s, a big-band dance music with a 
  3. simple harmonic base of varying tempo from 
  4. the rhythm section (percussion, guitar, 
  5. piano), harmonic brass and woodwind sections 
  6. (sometimes strings), and superimposed solo 
  7. melodic line from, eg: trumpet, clarinet, or 
  8. saxophone.  
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  10. Subject by: Vince Pike
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