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by LazyP
Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:12 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Contemporary swing bands
Replies: 6
Views: 6430

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/
by LazyP
Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:43 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Christmas Dance Playlist
Replies: 18
Views: 13898

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.
by LazyP
Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:05 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Personal evolution of music preferences
Replies: 25
Views: 15815

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...
by LazyP
Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:51 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: ID3 tags in .wav files?
Replies: 12
Views: 11649

Then use the FLAC format. It's a lossless format with support for Metadata (artist, genre, song etc.)
by LazyP
Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:48 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Foreign-language swing
Replies: 36
Views: 26544

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...
by LazyP
Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:03 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Sexy/Naughty Music
Replies: 23
Views: 18821

Wynonie Harris - Keep on churnin
by LazyP
Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:03 am
Forum: Song IDs
Topic: *OPEN* anyone identify this version of Fever?
Replies: 6
Views: 7346

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.
by LazyP
Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:01 am
Forum: Upcoming Events
Topic: Events in Europe
Replies: 3
Views: 6175

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
by LazyP
Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:44 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: What are your favorite songs right now?
Replies: 220
Views: 165539

Lucky Millinder - Apollo Jump
Helen Humes - He May Be Your Man
by LazyP
Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:52 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Favorite Mid-range Classic Swing
Replies: 12
Views: 9148

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)
by LazyP
Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:29 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Cool modern band combo's
Replies: 10
Views: 7487

Boilermaker Jazz band vs. Gunhild Carling and her swing band

Too bad the reside on different sides of the atlantic ocean
by LazyP
Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:36 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Communist Swing Music
Replies: 12
Views: 9688

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...
by LazyP
Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:19 am
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: Newbies in your scene
Replies: 26
Views: 26407

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...
by LazyP
Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:40 am
Forum: Other Music
Topic: Dictionaraoke
Replies: 5
Views: 7519

LazyP wrote:ok, got it. Let's call the whole thing off is on my playlist for tonight... :lol:
As might be expected it totally failed... :lol:
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.
by LazyP
Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:06 am
Forum: Other Music
Topic: Dictionaraoke
Replies: 5
Views: 7519

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