SwingDJs

Helen Humes doing St Louis Blues goes from Slow to a Break beat section to Fast. It pretty much rules.

...was to get my own equipment. Within reason of course. When I read through many of the posts hear on SDJS there is a lot of talk about whether one should DJ from a laptop or CDs or Vinyl, and how to solve one of many recurring problems. My theory is that YOU as a DJ should be responsible for every...

Trev...I noticed that you had an issue with someone bumping into the table while you were playing vinyl and had a little skip. I've recently made a habit of bringing along a simple addition to my vinyl setup making my records nearly "skip proof". It's an old trick that a lot of club DJ's u...

I frequently DJ LP's only at several events in Chicago and around the Midwest. It is definitely a pain in that ass that is sometimes worth it, and sometimes not. When I spin vinyl I bring two direct drive turntables and my own mixer. This allows me to cue with precision and transition smoothly betwe...

How can you not include....Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? by Louis Armstrong

I just recently aquired a Bert Kaempfert album called "Kaempfert by Touch", it was immediately put in my TO SELL pile.

I love hip-hop jazz stuff as well as finding the source material for it. Check these out: Madlib - Shades of Blue US3 - Broadway & 52nd Guru - Jazzamatazz Of course the Beastie Boys used some Three Sounds and tons of other Jazz samples in Pauls Boutique. There's a cool series of CD's called the ...

I would allow the DJ's to pick their artist before hand and play only the music by that artist. This would allow the DJ to prepare and really provide a wide perspective of the artist. Pulling names from a hat could lead to trouble of DJ's not knowing the particular artist, pulled from the hat, very...

I definitely play live recordings. Applause isn't really distracting if you use it right. Think about it....If you were seeing a live band, people would usually applaud after songs. Sometimes I like to play a few live songs in a row, fading one applause into the next. I think it gives your set a liv...

I have had nothing but bad luck with NuMark and Gemini products.

I hooked up the dance studio that I teach at with the Stanton650

This is their lowest model with Key corrected pitch control, which is awesome for teaching, and can proove useful at times while DJ'ing. I like this unit a lot.

Some of my favorites:

Count Basie Big Band live at Montreux 77

I also love the chill version by Oscar Peterson on Night Train

and my man Gene Harris on Swingin' The Blues

Thanx guys. I'll keep you posted on the progress.

For the past year, I've been buying most of my Jazz on Vinyl. It's cheaper, you find stuff you might not otherwise, and I just like it. I also just purchased a collection of over 3000 LP's and should be receiving them next week. I know that I'll want to start getting stuff onto CD right away as I'm ...

WOW, that's quite a project! I also have been starting to do some DB of my music and I found a few different programs that help quite a bit. They don't list as much information as you're looking to enter, but at least a lot of the basics get listed for you. http://www.firetongue.com/cd-database.html...

Worked like a charm!!!!! It took a couple of times to make it through some of the explanations, but the end product is great.