SwingDJs

Campus Five wrote:Woodside - that hurts my feelings.

lol. Hopefully you understand I'm joking....

btw looking forward to hearing you next week. Bought my tickets for Camp Hollywood!

Summertime for example. Yes, I'd say a large majority of standards [if not 100%] are from musicals, including music from the songwriters listed above. Another tad later example is "Surrey with the Fringe on the Top". From Oklahoma! Mary Stalling's version is very popular. And then of cours...

I'm thinking about making an edit of Jumpin' at the Woodside, that piano intro always bothered me and is not very danceable..... then perhaps the song wouldn't always start a jam.

Hey! Question - which track has that hot ride-out tag on it and a quote from "Hold Tight" and one of the guys shouting out "HEY!" before the ride-out? (Maybe it's "YEAH!) I think this is "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", a track I play occasionally. "...

I also don't care for the Artie Shaw Self-Portrait version, it's quite bland. I don't know what to make out of someone who says they find that haunting and unique Shaw version of "Summertime" to be "bland". There is so much in there to hold your interest and that very early use ...

Thanks Cameron! Yes, I did post about seeing Buddy Rich. The Akiyoshi/Tabackin band came every year to the UW to do a concert. I loved the woodwind solis - flute/clarinet sections in their arrangements. My other special memory from the early 80's was seeing Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald together a...

...similar to my facing the wrath of Shorty Dave when I edited out the long, rhythmless piano interludes in Gene Harris's "Summertime." It worked, but it interfered with Dave's "choreography" to the full version, so he yelled afoul. :shock: :o In my defense, though, I had closel...

Thanks for the youtube post, it was great watching that, especially Ray Brown digging on Gene's playing. I also don't care for the Artie Shaw Self-Portrait version, it's quite bland. Shorty Dave played a nice version in Denver, I think it was Junior Mance? . The other reason I was thinking about thi...

zipthebird wrote:This is an odd one, but listen to the very last few seconds of "Basin Street Blues" off of Teagarden's album Mis'ry and the Blues. Talk about virtuosity.

Great album. If you don't have it you should get it. Love that "trombone tag".

Swing DJs are overwhelmingly the product of middle-class white families, a culture that doesn't emphasize nicknames as much. Swing DJs owe their existence to, well ... music geeks who happen to dance. Having a "serious" nickname would be perceived as an attempt at street cred. You'd proba...

The problem I'm having is that for storage/historical reasons my music collection actually lives on my desktop computer. I've been burning music for djing onto DVD and then importing on my laptop. The one thing that I haven't managed to get to transfer right with this approach is the ratings, which...

So I've been playing this song a lot this season, as I'm sure many of you are too. The two versions I'm playing a lot are Earl Hines from "Blues 'n Things" - I love the arrangment, the tempo changes a couple of times and there are some nice overlays, so I'd consider it an "advanced da...

I don't agree with editing in general. I think it panders to the dancers. People have been dancing long enough now that if there are some difficult sections in songs that you want to spin, you should just keep them in there. Of course you don't want to be the "Bet you can't dance to this" ...

Chris Barber covered a bunch of Bechet stuff once he moved to France. The liner notes mention how difficult it was for the clarinet player to emulate Bechet's sound. When I think of clarinet, I think of something more like Goodman, Shaw and Herman. Those are the swing era giants. But the earlier gi...

As a DJ, I like to give dancers a couple of seconds, not much more. Sometimes I will use longer pauses to change the mood, I'll also use trailing applause, lead in talking or even bumper clips for the same purpose. Basically I like to have control over the pause time. So I've finally found the best...