SwingDJs

Hey everyone - I'm pleased to announce that I'm releasing a new CD in a couple weeks, and you can pre-order it today. You can listen to all the songs here: http://goo.gl/OWShN The band is my ten-piece group, the Solomon Douglas Swingtet, featuring some amazing musicians including Kim Massie on vocal...

I just learned that the beautiful NYC vocalist Molly Ryan is recording a swing CD using an amazing lineup of musicians (including Dan Levinson, Dan Barrett, Kevin Dorn, John Reynolds, Vince Giordano, Bucky Pizzarelli). You can pre-order it on Kickstarter, here: http://kck.st/KsHHg6 (Hurry, only two ...

http://solomondouglas.com/images/Aint_No_School_small.jpg I am very excited to announce the upcoming release of a brand-new CD by my ten-piece orchestra, the Solomon Douglas Swingtet. The new album, titled Ain't No School Like the Old School , contains sizzling new instrumental recordings of 16 gre...

http://solomondouglas.com/images/Live_at_the_Legion_small.jpg I'm very excited to announce the availability of the second CD by my ten-piece orchestra, the Solomon Douglas Swingtet . The CD is called Live at the Legion , and includes 16 songs (more than an hour of music) recorded live at the "...

cool, that looks like a great resource. thanks, jonathan. the reason i want to reinvent the wheel is that i enjoy learning about the music by transcribing it. i'm sort of stubborn that way. :) There are several stocks that you could use as a base - why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to? Check ...

Oh, and to clarify: 1. It obviously doesn't have to be songs for which published sheet music exists. I'm going to write my own arrangements based on the recordings. 2. I'm looking for good music for "swing dancing" (Charleston, Balboa, Blues, Collegiate Shag, Lindy Hop, Peabody, etc.) Once...

I'm always writing new arrangements to expand the reportoire of my ten-piece orchestra, and right now I want to do so by regressing in time. Currently most of my book is stuff from the late 1930s to the mid 1960s, with a special emphasis on late 1950s (New Testament Basie etc.) I want to start doing...

I love the "Big 18" albums because they differ from all the other hi-fi recreations of classic swing that were being recording in the late 50s: rather than trying to duplicate the original arrangement, they wrote new charts (longer in duration, and with expanded instrumentation) that adher...

I'm pleased to announce that Swingmatism was officially released on Wednesday, November 15th. As always, you can go to http://solomondouglas.com/buy_CD.html to listen to all the tracks and order your copy!

Thank you, Laura! I'm really glad to learn that Keep Punching is PD, especially since I released my CD today and haven't paid for the rights to that song. I really appreciate your help!

Solomon

After numerous delays, I am very happy to announce that my new CD Swingmatism is finally in the hands of the replication company that I've hired to do the manufacturing and printing. This means that, barring any more unforeseen delays, I'm looking at a release date in mid-November. I joined the Glen...

Hey there - I have exciting news to announce! My ten-piece orchestra, the Solomon Douglas Swingtet , has just finished two days of hard work in the recording studio, and we will soon be coming out with our début CD, tentatively titled Swingmatism . The album will include songs that were orginally do...

Hmmm. In high quality, that might sound annoyingly late 40's / white big band / new testament Basie in its timbre, which isn't at all how it comes across in the video. Hmm... if by "annoyingly late 40's / white big band / new testament Basie in its timbre", you mean over-produced and arti...

That's pretty cool. What are the title and composer's name that they use for the song? John the band leader, just transcribed it. He does it all the time. Yes, I understand that. That's where I got the music too: from the movie clip. With most old swing music that's the only source of authentic arr...

That's pretty cool. What are the title and composer's name that they use for the song?