SwingDJs

Sure thing. It's "Everybody Rock", off this excellent album. Highly recommended. It's basically Chick Webb's band after Chick's death, with Ella as the nominal bandleader. She's not singing at all, just egging the band on. And doing a good job, too! yeaha! thanks! I thought, that it would...

Hi there,

can anybody tell me the name of the second song, please?

1000 thx!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MZy-9aJgA8

Hi there,

does anyone kno, who plays this version of "I found a new baby"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw38CFETt2E

Thx and cheers!

syncopations by the rhythm section, here drums... weird argument, right?

that's what you say. ;) however, if you are right and the song swings even with no syncopation beat: what makes this or any song in general swing? categorizing a dance by its basic rhythm is so nonsense to. beside the fact that it's pretty boring to stick to one rhythm all the time, the way of doing...

What really annoyed was that he wasn't saying, what kind of dance one should dance to the songs, but this song is NOT swing, even if we (dumbass) Lindy Hoppers/Balboa dancers could swing to it. NOT swing, because of no syncopations in the beat ... :shock: Thus, lots of DJs have no idea of Swing, whe...

The song he called Swing actually also had a straight beat, I think, but very slow walking base and only a female voice singing. He defined it Swing because of the singer. I agreed to that I didn't remember the song's name. But when they played Who Ya Hunchin' by Chick Webb (to me THE typical Swing ...

Hi there, last week I had a Blues Dance workshop with an pretty old guy, which I do not doubt, that he has a lot of experience. We went through various songs to determine, what kind of music it is and what kind of dance ("One Step", "Two Step", Swing) we should dance to them. By ...