SwingDJs

One of the first swing CDs I ever bought was the Swingsation disc featuring Charlie Barnet & Jimmy Dorsey (GRP, 1999). Every Jimmy Dorsey track is a killer, and the sound is excellent (almost too good - I've been disappointed so many times since then): Stompin' At The Savoy John Silver Don't Be ...

djstarr wrote:Charlie Barnet's version of Cherokee

Hint: The best sounding version of the original recording (1939) can be found on The Fabulous Swing Collection

The hifi version from The Everest Years is also suberb (it runs for 7 minutes but I've edited it down to 3:23)

FYI, I have a 3rd album by many of the same folks called Live Echoes Of The Best In BIG BAND BOOGIE. The band's moniker was changed to The Will Bradley Johnny Guarnieri Band. I liked this the least of the 3 by far, but thought some of you might find it interesting to look for it. I doubt it was put...

BTW, thanks to a German friend, I got the discs. And they are really great, especially the second one! May I remind everyone that "Easy Does It" is a good example of the somewhat quirky song structure A-B-A? Speaking of "truly vintage", who prefers to dj Murray's Ragtime Banjo Qu...

There are a few cheap copies available on amazon.de right now: Live Echoes of the Swinging Bands - EUR 11,99 More Live Echoes - EUR 14.99 Unfortunately, they can only be delivered to Germany... :( Can someone from Germany help me out here?? Anyway, next year (or already this year?), these recordings...

The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-41 Mosaic set is now available for preorder. It hath arrived! And, it sounds great! :D BTW, there was an annoying mistake on the Hampton set - they included Fiddle-Diddle (no fiddle, but vocals) twice and missed out Fiddle-Dee-Dee (fiddle, no vocals)...

I look forward to this - especially given that the Columbia Basie CDs issued so far have quite crappy sound (I have the Definitive sets) From http://www.mosaicrecords.com/genres.asp?dept=50 Mosaic Limited Edition Box Set Classic Columbia OKeh & Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940) ...

trev wrote:The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-41 Mosaic set is now available for preorder.

It hath arrived! And, it sounds great!

Lawrence wrote:[Nasal, Frankie-Manning-like voice] "You got fiiiive fingers on each hand...."

I always thought he said [Nasal, Frankie-Manning-like voice] "You hold up fiiiive fingers in each hand...." But I have no idea what it means...

It's funny - I was just about to ask if anyone had made a good edit of Jive At Five by Buck Clayton (Mosaic 228) so that I wouldn't have to fade it (it's a tad too long at 9:19...) It's midtempo (165 bpm) but quite energetic so it might work for your routine. It's true that the original 1939 Basie J...

Mr Awesomer wrote:He's also hitting the cymbal stand... which is the sound I think he's talking about.

Yeah that's probably it. He's really hammering away in that intro! The same high-pitched sound also returns later between 2:03 and 2:12.

Speaking of Jo Jones, what exactly is the percussion/drumming sound you can hear at the beginning of my fave Count Basie track: Honeysuckle Rose (1937)?

Just because a drummer sucks, or is too modern to understand how to play hi hats right, that's not a reason to tell him not to play hats. The alternative (ride) is one of things that most often makes swing STOP swinging and start grooving - and there's plenty of that out there. Instead its a reason...

And at the seattle exchange I heard once again a song that sounded like all that meat and no potatoes but it was a faster version.. And it didn't have the lyrics in the same place as the popular version.. Anyway it sounded like fats but I wasn't sure.. If you heard a slightly faster version of Meat...

Thanks for the tips. I was mainly thinking about songs that slowly increase their tempo as they progress. Found another good example: Jimmie Lunceford - Harlem Shout (1936): starts at 190 and ends at 225. And Ellington Dim and Cres In Blue picks up quite a bit as it moves along. Hmmm.... my Dim is s...