Talk:Western swing
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I wish those making authoritative statements about Western Swing wouldn't hide behind anonymous IP addresses, nor point their references to print sources with no excerpting of the relevant text (under fair-use, of course). Right, Mr. 12.74.168.8 ? Jim, K7JEB 20:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- WorldCat Search will point you to a library near you if you want to check the sources for yourself. If I remember, I will hunt up the exact page numbers for you the next time I go to the library. 12.74.168.91 03:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Gypsy jazz influence in Western Swing- Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli predate Bob Wills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6U2tSVDtGk
- That video biography on the YouTube link says Reinhardt and Grappelli only visited the US once, in 1935, after the Western Swing genre was firmly established. Their music is remarkably similar to Western Swing and does bolster the assertion that Western Swing is a form of jazz.Jim, K7JEB
Django and Grappelli were pre-western swing
