Mac Abbé et le Zombi Orchestra

Swing is a jazz style centered on a buoyant, danceable groove created by a walking bass, four-to-the-bar rhythm guitar, a backbeat emphasis on 2 and 4, and a lilted “swung” eighth-note feel. Typically performed by big bands (saxes, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section) as well as small combos, it balances written arrangements with improvised solos. Hallmarks include call-and-response between horn sections, riff-based melodies, shout choruses that build intensity near the end of an arrangement, and rich sectional voicings grounded in blues language and ii–V–I harmonic motion. Tempos range from medium to brisk, serving social dances like the Lindy Hop and Jitterbug. Swing’s expressive phrasing, dance-floor focus, and sophisticated arranging made it the dominant popular music of the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Swing musette is a French dance-music style that blends the accordion-led bal-musette tradition with the rhythmic feel, harmony, and improvisational language of swing-era jazz. Centered in Parisian dance halls and cafés, it features the chromatic accordion (often with "musette" wet tuning), manouche-style acoustic guitars, violin or clarinet, and double bass. The repertoire typically includes waltzes in 3/4 that are phrased with a swing feel (often called valse swing or valse musette), as well as lively 4/4 numbers influenced by big-band swing. Harmonically, it adapts jazz progressions (ii–V–I, turnarounds, secondary dominants, diminished passing chords) to the lyrical, nostalgic melodies of musette, resulting in music that is at once danceable, sophisticated, and distinctly Parisian.