The Swingin' States is an album by American jazz trombonist Kai Winding featuring performances recorded in 1958 for the Columbia label.^[1]

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The Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars and stated "The gimmick of this out-of-print LP by trombonist Kai Winding is that all dozen songs have a state in their title... Winding and fellow trombonist Frank Rehak along with pianist Hank Jones split up all of the solo space on the spirited if somewhat lightweight music".^[2]

1. "Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana)" (Ballard Macdonald, James F. Hanley) - 2:24
2. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (James A. Bland) - 3:01
3. "California, Here I Come" (Al Jolson, Buddy De Sylva, Joseph Meyer) - 2:46
4. "Louisiana" (Andy Razaf, Bob Schafer, J. C. Johnson) - 2:37
5. "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) - 2:42
6. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 2:58
7. "Jersey Bounce" (Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Plater, Buddy Feyne) - 2:29
8. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 2:30
9. "Idaho" (Jesse Stone) - 3:37
10. "At Last Alaska" (Kai Winding) - 3:29
11. "Mississippi Mud" (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh) - 3:21
12. "Oklahoma!" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 2:41

• Recorded in New York City on August 22, 1958 (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 7), August 26, 1958 (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 11) and August 29, 1958 (tracks 8-10 & 12).

• Kai Winding – trombone, arranger
• Frank Rehak – trombone
• Dick Hixon, Dick Leib (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 11), Tommy Mitchell (tracks 2, 4, 6-10 & 12) - bass trombone
• Hank Jones – piano
• Eddie de Haas – bass
• Gus Johnson – drums
• George Laguna – congas, bongos