SwingDJs

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/2013/03/29/175585519/?showDate=2013-03-29 Usually, NPR's daily program listings credit the music played during the segment. In this case, they credit Ray Anthony's "Bunny Hop" as well "The Egg and I" by The Seatbelts. Often, you can pla...

Question from a friend? Has anyone used venue thinpar 38s before? Would they work for uplighting wedding? Are they easy to do custom colors?

Surreal wrote:nevermind the Duke, they've never even heard of Stevie Wonder.

Motown will never forget Stevie Wonder, it's just music that parents listen to.

Okay, you had a hot floor, but your next choice kills the mood, how do you recover? How important is it that you recover, and I'm not necessarily saying swing, but weddings and other events?

IIRC, an episode of History Detectives traced that history when someone found a Klan record.

So I'm at a dance, a couple of us do shots at a bar, I get a D.C. quarter and say, "Kind of appropriate for tonight." They ask why and I show that the tails side is a tribute to Duke Ellington. "Duke who?" Okay, we're dealing with a new crowd here, born after 1980, maybe I've got...

Nothing new under the sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmi0BIpuRnE

zipthebird wrote:The Asylum Street Spankers - Smile - My Favorite Record.

The name of the album, not necessarily a personal judgement?

Has anybody tried anything new this year? There's a new Pink Martini album, and the Glee soundtracks have a few songs that hold possibilities for me.

I run nocstories, but it's for a storytelling group.

(aside: there's this wonderful tool called "google". it lets you find information about, for example, jazz musicians and their lives. quite useful.) I already checked Wikipedia, often a top search result on Google. Although, I found some more information, it doesn't hold the candle to the...

I came across this biopic starring Danny Kaye as Red Nichols and wondered how much of it was true, because I couldn't identify a large enough interlude to his recording career to justify the dramatic plot point of leaving the business to care for his polio-stricken daughter. Thought someone here mig...

A little bump. I hope they show the doc again because of Les Paul's passing, but right now, PBS is in pledge drive mode in Michigan-- a great opportunity, but one they will undoubtedly pass on.

Not sure which group to post in, but I'm headed to LA this week, 4/8-4-15, and would hope to fit some dancing in. Can someone pass along some info?

Thanks.