1. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz; [syn: swing, swing music, jive]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
swing music
n 1: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s;
flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
[syn: swing, swing music, jive]