SwingDJs

OMG, amazing performance of "One O'Clock Jump" by the Price Sammy Septet from 1959, featuring Elmer Crumley from the Lunceford band, and tons of great trumpets and trombones! I'm sitting now at work listening to it, this is so great, I feel like bouncing all over. http://img.youtube.com/v...

If I was a pro DJ, I'd probably start on the laptop front with a ruggedized device , these are built to take more in-transit abuse than a typical home or business laptop Panasonic is the only manufacturer making a laptop that could really claim to be "ruggedized" - the Toughbook series. E...

Even the best jazz drummers in the world have no clue - true swing playing is a different thing. If you hired somebody like Jeff Hamilton (Diana Krall, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, etc.), he would not only not really be able to get the style right, he'd probably look down on it as unevolved. I'...

<off-topic> I'm curious what kind of reaction you get when micro-managing a band? Do you ever re-book that same band?</off-topic> Years ago, when someone else criticized me on this board for daring to "micro-manage a band," I shared that concern with some of my musician friends who played...

I find it interesting the reaction to ITM. I get different ones from everybody. I've been doing this about 10 years now and the people who used to come up and eagerly request ITM are now the ones who give you the look when you play it for today's wide-eyed enthusiasts. I think people forget that th...

Part of the reason for my question is my XP home computer has become unstable to the point where even my intense maintenance utility program (System Mechanic) can neither fix it nor uninstall the problematic programs. Have you done a fresh OS install yet? I know it can be a pain in the ass... but i...

Part of the reason for my question is my XP home computer has become unstable to the point where even my intense maintenance utility program (System Mechanic) can neither fix it nor uninstall the problematic programs. (Yes, the Uninstall won't work!) The machine is over five years old and wasn't sta...

Different story, same moral. While editing tags and removing music from my laptop that I would never play, my software somehow inadvertently highlighted something like 80% of my songs, and deleted them all instead of just deleting the . (I think I used CRTL-right-click to select a bunch of songs to ...

The burden of figuring these things out is just unacceptable. First, let me say that I have no first hand experience with Vista as I will be sticking with XP for the foreseeable future. * * * * If you truly feel that the burden of understanding the technology that you are trying to make use of is u...

My point is, which I think some people might miss, that if you use MP3's today, you can continue using MP3's without any interference from Vista. DRM applies to formats that *use* DRM. MP3 does not. You can rip and play just as you did before... and since most of us use that scenerio, most of us ha...

Although the merits and demerits of ITunes are worth discussing (and I do appreciate the insight), I really want to keep the thread about Vista and its DRM applications. The ITunes reference was merely to point out an example of why I consider any DRM that restricts fair use to be unacceptable, espe...

For similar reasons, I refuse to buy anything from ITunes because the 5-computer limit on many of the ITunes proprietary files will make them obsolete and unplayable in a few years after I upgrade computers a few times. Computers can be de-authorized in iTunes, and will no longer count against the ...

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but there's a Mosaic Lionel Hampton set coming soon: The Complete Victor Lionel Hampton Sessions (1937-1941) This five disc set concentrates on the Victor recordings of Lionel Hampton's studio sessions from 1937 to 1941. These all star dates have been revered for ye...

It might be any one of the 193 versions on All Music. The Albert King version on that page (about 15 from the bottom) has some horns, which might be what you're looking for. (Not exactly up tempo, but it is somewhat bal-friendly.) Somewhat appropriate, given that the 30th anniversary of his death wa...

What are your favourites in this tempo range that meet these criteria? Are there versions of Jumpin at the Woodside in this tempo range? I don't have any "favorites" in this tempo range, but I do own several versions of Woodside over 300 BPM: Live! One O'Clock Jump (Laserlight) (Companion...