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- Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:12 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
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For anybody interested in performing, this is the information from this year's past festival. It was released in February, so I doubt the updated info will be released soon. The address should remain the same, although the deadline and other dates would move correspondingly. My current campaign is f...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:53 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
But you do raise a good question. Would Strayhorn have achieved without the considerable support of the Ellington organization but with more freedom? No, not even a little bit. Not even that, because everybody needs a start. Take Frank Sinatra or Johnny Mercer. They were able to break away from Tom...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:33 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:11 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:55 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
The ITM Wiki entry is exceptionally poor. That's what's great. You can change it, or if you give me the citations, I can. Wikipedia gets some knocks because it's only as good as the effort put into it, and as an online resource for plagarism, it doesn't get any easier, but I'm convinced that outsid...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:22 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27706
I've heard a lot about what you want from a band but not why its so important to have a dance band with name recognition at this event. Without thst, its hard to give useful advice. It's not so much name recognition as groove recognition. Any jazz act can send an audition tape. At this point, I'm c...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:58 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27706
The band(s) may be one piece but what you described a couple of posts back sounds like something really spontaneous. That's the crazy thing. These spontaneous things have been happening every time I'm there. This year, I did East Coast with a 18 ft tall puppet. Before that, we made an improv lighte...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:32 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27706
I figured unless there's another Django Reinhardt waiting to reemerge that the buzz of one performer or band is not going to be the draw. With 260 national artists, 160 local artists and 260 student musicians in this past year's lineup, there is no lack of programming. I do feel, however, that is im...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:46 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
- Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:39 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 130319
- Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:29 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27706
I think it would help if you really defined what you wanted from the artist, what you want from the event, what would the goals be for putting out a floor. Right now I can't really understand what your intent is. To various degrees, you can pretty much dance to anything playing on the six stages, a...
- Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:10 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Les Paul documentary on PBS American Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10462
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:35 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Les Paul documentary on PBS American Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10462
All I knew before the show was that he designed famous guitars, including Paul McCartney's. Learning not only that almost every aspect of amplification and recording was pioneered by him in some way, but that he himself was an extremely accomplished musician, the bridge between Django Reinhardt and ...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:24 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: If you could book any modern act...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27706
Why do you still want to bother with that stillborn Neo crap? It's nothing to do with Neo-Swing, the only condition is that the band is has a possibility of appearing, so that rules out fantasy stuff like a Rat Pack reunion with Glenn Miller leading the orchestra. If you know an act that tells it l...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:13 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Tip the DJ Commercials
- Replies: 45
- Views: 45271
venues. Dancers are notoriously bad tippers and bad customers for bartenders, and if the venue owner sees dancers tipping the DJ and not his/her own employees, that will come off poorly. We're better on the tipping, but notorious about not drinking, even sneaking in bottled water. What's probably n...