SwingDJs

Hey all, I thought this might be a fun/interesting thread. Do you own any jazz/swing/big band memorabilia, and if so, what is your favorite piece? I own very little, but my favorites are: Fletcher Henderson's autograph on a 1937 dance card and a postcard promoting one of his shows, also from 1937. ...

JesseMiner wrote: This wasn't just any old weekend - the music was definitely rich with history throughout the event.
Jesse

are you admitting the music played at the weekends you attend are getting "old"??? It's about time ! LOL

Honestly I think there was a great oprotunity lost here. There was a chance to really put the spotlight on our musical forfathers. Their music inspired so many musicians through out the decades, like Gene Harris, Ray Brown, Junior Mance and so on. It cross boundries, Willie Nelson. And while they m...

the Tap tribute wasnt really a tribute until the hot shots got out there and actually did something to pay respect to the tap legends before them. I didn't see the tap tribute, but to say that the tap dancers before the hot shots weren't paying tribute to their legends (just 'cuz they didn't copy a...

Actually Jimmie Lunceford gets a lot of play these days. I know I spin his music all the time. Plenty of us played Lunceford tunes this past weekend as is evident from the playlists posted here. Sy Oliver is of course amazing as well. I played his tune "Rumble" between competition rounds ...

Toon Town Dave wrote:I'm not an advocate of classifying songs based on BPM, .

YEA, me neither. The song is either a good or Bad selection. I used to label all my music with BPM's but I stopped. I decided to just learn what I have...

better yet , it caused me to play things I would not have choosen otherwise...

So what you're saying is that it's a time period thing, not an artist thing. Well, with the exception of one Gene Harris song. Looking at the musicians that played on the tunes in Jesse's set, for example, I see many that played in Harlem. And in Reuben's set, the two that don't meet your criteria ...

jUNIOR, was cool as well, but it wasn;t the Ideal setting for someone as great as him... Glad you liked Junior. Same goes with the battle on Fri night re: the setting. It's a bummer we couldn't get the Alhambra...would have been much more room to dance. I thought the music was awesome all weekend.....

falty411 wrote:
Well lets see,



If I was going to play Joe Williams, it would of been with Lionel Hampton

Hampton has alwasy been considered a Los Angeles originals, even though he did eventually move to NY ....

.*ha! when do y'all go broke? I bought 8 CD's tonight......*and* one of the stores is going to track down the Mills Bros' with Basie for me (the clerk was like "they played together?"). I will put this on my list - thanks! haha, so ya want to be a DJ???? talk to me when you break the 1,00...

as an aside, is 20's jazz lindy hop music? hell yes, it freakin created it.....You better beleive it! :lol: good times! i know that the roots are in 20's jazz, but the music did change and so did the dance. similar to how you mentioned the changes to the dance in the 40's. was the dance still more ...

groove killed our scene....I compiled a list of dancers that don't go out hardly anymore because of it.

Yep; when it's freaking hot at 2 in the morning (and we don't have air conditioning up here), no one wants to dance to fast music, especially after a long night of dancing. :) your crazy, thats the best time to crank it out....I certainly can't dance very long unless my heart is shocked a few times...

Seattle Rocks because you down have any Juke Box DJ's that play everything under the sun...Thats the great thing about being up there, you can acually dance every song all night, and not get bored. Oh if only that were true. We have our share of the Jukebox DJs. One imparticular has been getting a ...

Well, it's true, I beleive Seattle is Tad above LA now...and I have other friends from down here that tend to agree. ..don't follow in our scenes steps....we suck. Since I've only been to LA for CH and the last 2 exchanges I can't agree or disagree with this (though I also appreciate the compliment...