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A super song (with a message to all Swedes who insist on clapping on 1 and 3...):

Bob Chester and His Orchestra - Clap Your Hands on the Afterbeat (1940)

It's available on 1940-1941 (Circle, ?) as well as on the Second Circle Sampler (Circle, 2003).

anton wrote:It's nice but not super - I had many of the tracks before and the sound is not a great improvement.

After some further listening, I have to correct myself here - many of the tracks sound much better...

I've finally retrieved my box from the US and am currently going through the first couple of discs. It's nice but not super - I had many of the tracks before and the sound is not a great improvement. (I might even like the Classics sound better for some of the Fletcher Henderson tracks.) Anyway, joi...

I was listening to Gene Krupa's Ball of Fire, and noticed that mostly the sections were sets of 3 phrases where the phrases were 4 counts of 8. (There's an Intro of 2 phrases, followed by 4 sections, each with 3 phrases, followed by a solo section of 1 phrase, then ending with one more section cons...

Those Proper sets are the greatest. Folks! Forget about Proper Records. I've just started my own reissue label - Anton Records! Just send me twenty bucks in a brown envelope and you can become the lucky owner of AntonBox 001 - The Complete Jimmie Lunceford 1927-1939. Spanning seven CDs (hmm...), th...

My dream would be for someone to get me the complete "Masters of Jazz" collection of Lunceford (I think it's seven cd's, with alternates and all, 1927-1940), but unfortunately they're out of print, and therefore hard to find and often kind of expensive. Now, our friends at Proper are rele...

trev wrote:I just recieved this set in the mail and I am in love with Chu! I'm into the second disc so far and it's SO good.

Arghh... My set was delivered to my friend's house in Boulder CO a week ago but I won't go there until June.

Alain, here is what I'm going to burn off of the Self-Portrait. In chronological order with my * rating, *** I will play a lot more than *. [...] * Blues (From The Lenox Avenue Suite) - Part 1 *** Blues - Part 2 That's interesting - 'Blues (From The Lenox Avenue Suite) - Part 1' has been a recent D...

That's why I'm always so hesitant to spin that tune. The "swing" element makes me almost play it at a dance full of non-janky-taste dancers to whom I want to introduce a lot of "swing" sound, but the "jank" element keeps me from actually playing it! The only reason for...

Jonas wrote:Bennie Moten's version from 1932, yeah!

Amen to that! And what incredible sound quality (on the Ken Burns Jazz set) for being recorded in 1932!

There are currently 172 entries here on allmusic What's your favourite recording? Not counting duplicates there are perhaps "only" 80 versions... which is still a lot! One version I really dig is the one by Bob Crosby and His Bobcats. It's not the standard clone - they add things to the r...

I love the version of "Blowing Up a Storm" that is on Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 . Slower than the studio take(s) and quite hypnotic. I tend to listen to it over and over again. I've only DJed it once though - the quiet parts get lost if there is too much noise in the room. And no...

I came to think of this old thread when I listened to Mary Ann DeVries' excellent guest DJ set on Yehoodi Radio . She spins the great, original version of In the Mood by Edgar Hayes . AMG writes "In the Mood" really changed the face of popular music during the 1930s and early '40s. Based o...

http://www.radiocrazy.com/shows/A/ArtieShaw/38-12-06_ArtieShaw__.mp3 :D How come I can't get in to the main page? I didn't get around to listen to this until now - nice show! I couldn't access any main page either but I found the following links on Google: http://www.radiocrazy.com/shows/B/BigBands...

My fave tracks right now: Barney Bigard - Demi-tasse (alt) (204 bpm) - great major/minor riff - sounds like a weird hybrid between Steppin into Swing Society and Christopher Columbus. The alternate take has better sound. Cootie Williams - Sharpy (215 bpm) - crystal clear sound, strong rhythm. The vo...