What are your favorite songs right now?

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kitkat · #121 Post by **kitkat** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:35 pm

It's not my favorite song, but it's my favorite version of a song. I've always rather liked "Comes Love," but none seemed just right for dancers..
Larry Clinton's "Comes Love" (on this album, for example). (Male vocal.)
As my friend Patrick said, it's got a Benny Goodman "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" kind of thing going on.

Bob the Builder · #122 Post by **Bob the Builder** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:33 pm

I am just loving any version of "King Porter Stomp"
wheather that be,

Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Teddy Hill, Glenn Miller, Fletcher Hendesion, Claude Hopkins or Check Webb

Brian

djstarr · #123 Post by **djstarr** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:41 pm

Bob the Builder wrote:I am just loving any version of "King Porter Stomp"
wheather that be,

Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Teddy Hill, Glenn Miller, Fletcher Hendesion, Claude Hopkins or Check Webb

Brian

Check out the Jack Teagarden version on Jack Teagarden - Jazz Great; it's pretty kick ass.

trev · #124 Post by **trev** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:12 am

I just heard Charlie Barnet's 'Pow Wow' for the first time...

Matthew · #125 Post by **Matthew** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:50 am

"Willie the Weeper" - King Oliver

Segue in C · #126 Post by **Segue in C** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:13 pm

Basies 'Shorty George' and Coleman Hawkins 'Stuffy'

Matthew · #127 Post by **Matthew** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:39 pm

"John's Idea" - Basie, from The Golden Years, Vol. 1 (1937). I especially like the part at about 3:00, when Basie's swingin' hard and somebody yells "Swing it, Count!," and Basie swings it harder!

main_stem · #128 Post by **main_stem** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:34 am

Matthew wrote:"John's Idea" - Basie, from The Golden Years, Vol. 1 (1937). I especially like the part at about 3:00, when Basie's swingin' hard and somebody yells "Swing it, Count!," and Basie swings it harder!

I think it's Jimmy Rushing who yells out. You can also hear Billie Holiday prodding Pres on on one song.

GemZombie · #129 Post by **GemZombie** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:59 am

Matthew wrote:"John's Idea" - Basie, from The Golden Years, Vol. 1 (1937). I especially like the part at about 3:00, when Basie's swingin' hard and somebody yells "Swing it, Count!," and Basie swings it harder!

I remember reading where Basie hated that tune. That it was inspired by John Hammond, and he only did it because he was asked to. I could be thinking of another tune, but I'm pretty sure it was that one.

It's also basically the same song as Jumpin' at the Woodside.

Matthew · #130 Post by **Matthew** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:56 pm

On another one (it may be from the Proper set), Basie yells something like, "Speed it up, boys!," and then somebody else yells, "Thank you, Count!" I like that kind of yelling. It makes me think they were focused on the feel of the music, rather than on the specific sound - as though that swinging feeling was more important than the music, itself.

Segue in C · #131 Post by **Segue in C** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:29 am

I'm also really diggin' Coleman Hawkins 'Bean Soup' and Rex Stewarts 'John Hardy's Wife'.

Manu · #132 Post by **Manu** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:25 am

For the moment I can't stop listening to :

Oscar Peterson Love for Sale
and
Erroll Garner The Shadow of your Smile

junglekid · #133 Post by **junglekid** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:08 am

Matthew wrote:"Grand Terrace Shuffle" - Earl Hines, from CC 1937-1939. What a song!

Yep - that one rocks the house down. In the riff sections the floor in the venue is scorched and blistered.

Also a big fan of the Willie Bryant Rigamarole & Basie's Every Tub.

Dizzy Gillespie's 'Bout to Wail rules in a hard-swinging bop kind of way.

I've spun Teddy Powell's Jamaica Jam and Sidney Bechet's Broken Windmill recently to good effect.

AlekseyKosygin · #134 Post by **AlekseyKosygin** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:37 am

kitkat wrote:It's not my favorite song, but it's my favorite version of a song. I've always rather liked "Comes Love," but none seemed just right for dancers..
Larry Clinton's "Comes Love" (on this album, for example). (Male vocal.)
As my friend Patrick said, it's got a Benny Goodman "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" kind of thing going on.

Have you heard the Helen Forrest version on Artie's King Of The Clarinet 3 disc live box set? I think it's tops...

Lately I'm super down to play anything on Snowy Morning Blues, James P. covering Fats with drums behind him...actually ANY stride with drums behind the keys is rad...I'm always trying to find more of that stuff...

Alex

brotherswing · #135 Post by **brotherswing** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:42 am

I'm not sure someone as mentionned it yet, but I found a nice version of "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" by Madeleine Peyroux in a live CD called "20 Years of Music-Vol 3". I like it a lot.

I also found a great live version of King Porter Stomp by Glenn Miller at 240bpm with a great energetic solos. The CD is "The Centennial Collection". I nearly hate all the other songs of the CD like most Glenn Miller stuff but this one is unique, together with the live "Jeep Jockey Jump" !