SwingDJs

Gunhild Carling's band from Sweden are excellent! They have played for dancers at Herrang, London Balboa festival etc. Also touring around the world playing jazz festivals, so what you get is really high quality.

http://www.gunhildcarling.net/

Don't forget
Lionel Hampton - Gin for christmas
a bit on the fast side (278 bpm) but a great song, I played it this monday.

Dawn is not afraid to tell it like she sees it. She was slamming the Seattle DJs after the Masters event for playing too much early jazz that doesn't (in her opinion) swing. Any idea which bands and periods she was referring to? She wasn't specific, but I got the impression she prefers 50s Basie ov...

Then use the FLAC format. It's a lossless format with support for Metadata (artist, genre, song etc.)

I am going to Sweden next month. Any suggestions about CDs that might not be avaiable in the states that I might go hunting for? If you're willing to pay up some money then there is a big collection with the history of Swedish jazz music. It's called "Svensk jazzhistoria" and is so far 10...

Wynonie Harris - Keep on churnin

I have no idea what version that is, but you should definitely get the version by Dick Dale the best version of fever I have ever heard.

Check out Copenhagen Jazz festival as well
http://www.jazzfestival.dk/

usually great music and often some swing dancing. To find out where the dancers will be, check http://www.heptown.com the weeks before the festival

Lucky Millinder - Apollo Jump
Helen Humes - He May Be Your Man

some more...

Little Jazz (Artie Shaw with Roy Elridge)
Hop, skip and jump (Artie Shaw)
Sumpin' jumpin' around here (Sandy William's big eight)
Christopher Columbus (lots of versions)
Wild mab of the fish pond (Charlie barnet)
Afternoon of a moax (Charlie Barnet)

Boilermaker Jazz band vs. Gunhild Carling and her swing band

Too bad the reside on different sides of the atlantic ocean

I met a few russians at the Herrang Dance Camp this year, and one of them (don't remember her name) showed a russian video at one of the evening meetings. When she introduced this and talked there it gave me the impression that there was no "swing jazz" in Russia at the time. There was big...

How fast you get beginners to dance is very much dependent on the attitude of the crowd. One year ago, when I took over the DJing in my scene (before I didn't DJ every week as I do know) I could almost clear the floor at 190bpm. Now I have beginners dancing at 190bpm+. If you get the good dancers da...

LazyP wrote:ok, got it. Let's call the whole thing off is on my playlist for tonight...

As might be expected it totally failed...
But I played it when we should already have been closed so no harm done.
It took people about 20 seconds to actually understand what song it was.

ok, got it. Let's call the whole thing off is on my playlist for tonight...