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by caruso
Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:09 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Acapella
Replies: 16
Views: 16100

hefti

while I personally don;t enjoy dancing to accapella stuff most of the time I do have one album that you might enjoy. There is a Neil Hefti lead group that was recently rereleased on collectables.... it is called "Pardon my Doo-Wah/Hefti, Hot 'n Hearty" The first half is a bunch of accapell...
by caruso
Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:01 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: swinging violin...
Replies: 44
Views: 28313

Stuff Smith

I agree that violin playing has a heavy stigma attached to it... you immediately associate violin with classical music... the whole point of my question was that I recently bought some of Stuff Smith's work and have had some of Claude Williams' work for a while and wondered if there was anyone else ...
by caruso
Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:46 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: swinging violin...
Replies: 44
Views: 28313

swinging violin...

I don't know what it is, but I have totally been getting into both ray nance's and stuff smith's violin playing... I was wondering, what do other people think about violins in swing? What are your favorites of the genre?

later,
Kevin
by caruso
Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:16 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: vinyl (not CDs)
Replies: 22
Views: 15674

vinyl (not CDs)

I have recently began exploring the wide world of vinyl and was wondering what experience others have in this arena. I just ordered Jay McShann's "Big Apple Bash" and Snooky Young's "Horn of Plenty". There is obviously a lot more music available on LP, so what are the coolest LPs...