SwingDJs

I got positive feedback, including I should do it every August for his birthday. The one thing I noticed when putting this together is that Basie has a lot of extremely good music that is in the upper tempos (210+). The one comment I got was that I played more fast music than what the dancers were u...

I was fortunate enough to have a dance on Count Basie's birthday. Since it was the exact day, I decided to do a whole night of Basie. I thought it turned out pretty good. I did play one song twice. The second time was at the end of the night because Karen Turman wanted to practice a choreography she...

My laptop harddrive is almost full and I'm going to switch to DJing from an external harddrive. My concern is that all my ratings will not carry over to the external. I'm not code savvy so would need help as if explained to a fifth grader. I talked with Brent offline and he said there was a related ...

Charlie Barnet or Ella Fitzgerald. Depending on whether I want to go instrumental or vocal.

There is a Decca Recording out there called Bing Crosby and Some of His Jazz Friends. It has some good stuff on including Yes, Indeed and Pinetop's Boogie Woogie. He does a version of Pinetop's Boogie Woogie on one of Lionel Hampton cds. Perhaps it's the same version. I think he also recorded a cd ...

I'm suprised I'm the first to mention Barbara Morrison's version. I usually play that when someone leaves our scene. And every Fall for Rudy & Allen.

When the LCJO came to Minneapolis/St. Paul years ago, several of them came over and jammed with local musicians at our weekly Thursday night dance at Tapestry. I drove several of them over myself! Wynton was even there for a while. I think I remember one or two of the Lincoln Center guys attempting...

I just played Surrey with the Fringe on Top by Mary Stallings last night. About 5 years ago, that was played about as much as Wade in the Water has been the last couple years.

When the LCJO came to Minneapolis/St. Paul years ago, several of them came over and jammed with local musicians at our weekly Thursday night dance at Tapestry. I drove several of them over myself! Wynton was even there for a while. I think I remember one or two of the Lincoln Center guys attempting...

There is an error correction switch/box in ITunes in the same "Import" tab of "Preferences" that I described above. It was probably not turned on if you did not know about it, because it is set "off" as a default (presumably because most consumers want fast ripping ove...

what you claim you are not "in it" to do I knew that phrase would catch people up as soon as I read it. I'd like to come to Adam's defense and put a few words in his mouth that he told me, in hopes that it'll clarify his intent correctly. He's not in it for the money, he said, but at the ...

I haven't DJed a bar scene in a while but I've always been able to set up a door cover. Usually, you can comp a couple dancers in and have them cover a shift at the door. I would be embarrassed to ask for money to play music. I'm not saying that it's offensive to make money DJing, because I do, but ...

Ella:

Smooth Sailing
Swinging Shepherd Blues

and a couple others I can't nab off from memory...

I am finding this here as well. The dancers here are depending on hearing a lot of 'old faithfuls' they know and love. Resistance to new tunes is unfortunately high. I'd feel ok playing up to five scarcely-heard-before-locally numbers in one two-hour slot here. More than that and I don't know if I'...

I find it interesting the reaction to ITM. I get different ones from everybody. I've been doing this about 10 years now and the people who used to come up and eagerly request ITM are now the ones who give you the look when you play it for today's wide-eyed enthusiasts. I think people forget that the...