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One year ago, we published the article "25 Great Christmas Swing Songs" on Swing DJ Resources.

It became popular again this year.

Included in the article is a link to a collaborative playlist on Spotify.
Feel free to add your favorite Christmas songs to it.

I don't know where you live, but it's available on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-New-Orleans- ... B0000250UM

and also on amazon.de

I'm also for Lionel Ferbos (& The Creole Swingers). It's from the album "At the Jazz Band Ball", not available for download, as far as I know.

I remember having seen those jamborees when I started dancing Lindy, but unfortunately I never owned one of them.

A great tune! I just recently discovered Jan Savitt.

It works well for Lindy Hop and Balboa.

That's "Dickie's Dream" from the brand new album by Michael Gamble & The Rhythm Serenaders

http://swingdjresources.com/little-swing-sesh-13/

omsuperhoops wrote:...here is another slower number i need help with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoVHHbtgiW8

Blues For Bechet by Jacques Gauthé & His Creole Rice Jazz Band

Sounds like Focus Pocus - title track from Glenn Crytzer's new album. Although it sounds like it's been slowed down a fair bit, without locking the pitch.

Yup, that's correct!

Based on the idea by Veit Hailperin aka DJ Dr. Jazz who posted a Jazz Song Alphabet (a compilation with song names from A-Z) on his blog, I published my own Jazz Song Alphabet on Swing DJ Resources and asked for more alphabets from the readers. A nice series started. Currently, volume 8 is online an...

I also like "As Time Goes By" and especially the track "Lover Come Back To Me".

Amazon.com announced today that the advertisement fee (as they call it) will be reduced from 10% to 5% effective November 1, 2012.

So you get $/€0.05 for a standard song price $/€0.99.

Gordon Webster Tuba Skinny Glenn Crytzer & His Syncopators Meschiya Lake Linnzi Zaorski Rosenberg Trio Bernard Berkhout Rhythm Junkies Jonathan Stout & His Campus Five Boilermaker Jazz Band Solomon Douglas Swingtet Baby Soda Gentlemen & Gangsters Cassidy and the Orleans Kids George Gee j...

Most of the PC DJs I know use
MediaMonkey or JRiver Media Center.

Blog post for all Swing DJs using iTunes as their main music library:

How To Organize Your Music In iTunes

New post on Swing DJ Resources especially for the rookie DJs among us:

How To Play Your First Swing DJ Set

Advanced DJs: Please share your experiences about your first DJ set in the comment section on the website. Would love to read your stories!