Effective period / Period of releases: 1978 - 1988

Members: Didier Lockwood, Bernard Lubat, Denis Van Hecke, Siegfried Kessler, François Couturier, Vincent Courtois, Jean-Yves Rigaud, Jean-Charles Capon, Dominique Pifarély, Didier Levallet, Christian Escoudé, Laurent Hoevenaers, Lionel Benhamou, Manuel Denizet, Pierre Aubert

Jazz String band created by Didier Levallet in 1978 at the suggestion of Maurice Seveno and Jean-Pierre Locatelli, then managers of the label Uniteledis.
Thanks to the gathering of first class strings players and soloist, the album was a musical and critical success. The "all stars" reunion for the studio recording then became a real band and went live in concert.
During more than 15 years existence, the Swing Strings System had an ever changing line-up, always recruiting the top strings players of the French jazz scene.