Editing Swing music (section)

==Cross-genre swing==
In country music [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], [[Moon Mullican]], and [[Bob Wills]] combined elements of swing and blues to create a [[Western swing]]. Mullican left the [[Cliff Bruner]] band to pursue solo career that included many songs that maintained a swing structure. Artists like [[Willie Nelson]] and [[Asleep at the Wheel]] have continued the swing elements of country music. Asleep at the Wheel has also recorded the Count Basie tunes "[[One O'Clock Jump]]", "[[Jumpin' at the Woodside]]", and "Song of the Wanderer" using a steel guitar as a stand-in for a horn section. [[Nat King Cole]] followed Sinatra into pop music, bringing with him a similar combination of swing and ballads. Like Mullican, he was important in bringing piano to the fore of popular music.

[[Gypsy swing]] is an outgrowth of the [[jazz violin]] swing of [[Joe Venuti]] and [[Eddie Lang]]. In Europe it was heard in the music of guitarist [[Django Reinhardt]] and violinist [[Stéphane Grappelli]]. Their repertoire overlaps 1930s swing, including French popular music, gypsy songs, and compositions by Reinhardt, but gypsy swing bands are formulated differently. There is no brass or percussion; guitars and bass form the backbone, with violin, accordion, clarinet or guitar taking the lead. Gypsy swing groups generally have no more than five players. Although they originated in different continents, similarities have often been noted between gypsy swing and Western swing, leading to various fusions.

Rock music hitmakers like [[Fats Domino]] and [[Elvis Presley]] included swing-era standards in their repertoire, making [[Crooner|crooning]] ballads "[[Are You Lonesome Tonight? (song)|Are You Lonesome Tonight]]" and "[[My Blue Heaven (song)|My Blue Heaven]]" into rock and roll-era hits. The [[doo-wop]] vocal group [[the Marcels]] had a big hit with their lively version of the swing-era ballad "[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]".

Multi-genre mandolinist [[Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns|Jethro Burns]] is known for playing swing, jazz, and other forms of the genre on the mandolin. He produced albums that feature jazz rhythms and swing chord progressions. He is often considered "The Father of Jazz Mandolin".