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by remysun
Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:03 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Fixing an 'off-center' recording
Replies: 1
Views: 3938

I suppose you could try cut and pasting the different sections and using a sound editor to make the sound more consistent.
by remysun
Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: The impossible request
Replies: 19
Views: 21879

Someone has clearly requested The soundtrack from Sweet and Lowdown. Get it, and play some Django for now.
by remysun
Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:51 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: Calming a crazy floor
Replies: 15
Views: 16799

Re: Calming a crazy floor

Just stop the music, say, "Woah, woah, woah!" and state your concerns. Spilled drinks are a real hazard, potentially twisting someone's knee leading to a lifetime of pain. Fortunately, nobody is enough of a jerk to be consciously inconsiderate. And if they are, you want to know who they ar...
by remysun
Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:27 pm
Forum: Other Music
Topic: Katy Perry
Replies: 0
Views: 22800

Katy Perry

http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/content/article_5157.shtml I only know "I Kissed A Girl", but she mentions the Santa Barbara swing scene from 12 years ago. Where did you get your outlandish style from? The swing dancing and Lindy Hop group I was apart of in Santa Barbara at age 13 and 14 ...
by remysun
Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:32 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Paris Blues on Digital TV-- THIS is Great!
Replies: 0
Views: 3903

Paris Blues on Digital TV-- THIS is Great!

I am a really big fan of the digital television transition. I get free high definition and more subchannels. One of them is a movie channel called THIS, and right now, they're showing Paris Blues with Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, an appearance by Louis Armstrong and a Strayhorn-Ellington soundtrack....
by remysun
Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:02 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Oscars filler music
Replies: 0
Views: 3909

Oscars filler music

Has anybody noticed the music for this year's Academy Awards?

Apparently, the music director has been told to jazz it up, quite literally, and has set himself to mash up and arrange classic movie themes and make them swing.

And here I thought I could fast forward through all that.
by remysun
Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:05 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Stand-out years in swing history?
Replies: 27
Views: 16218

And Duke was also open to influences outside his band as when his palette expanded after he heard Louis Armstrong in the 20s. Incidentally, lots of musicians changed after they heard Armstrong, I think Coleman Hawkins said he totally changed after he heard Armstrong. This brings up another question...
by remysun
Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:56 pm
Forum: Other Music
Topic: Pepsi commercial
Replies: 0
Views: 22291

Pepsi commercial

During Saturday Night Live, I saw a new Pepsi commercial that mashed-up The Who's "My Generation"with swing, and a bunch of other genres.

Does anybody know anything else about the mash-up?
by remysun
Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:00 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Stand-out years in swing history?
Replies: 27
Views: 16218

penguin wrote: It's a time machine - I can do the concerts in the reverse order (and multiple times, just have to careful I don't end up dancing with myself, wonder what sort of paradox that would create).
You mean you swing both ways?
by remysun
Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:48 am
Forum: Other Music
Topic: Enya swings?
Replies: 0
Views: 22637

Enya swings?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=99190609

I listened to NPR's interview with Enya, and they played some pretty interesting tracks from her new album.

One of the tracks has a bouncy pizzicato to it that I'd like to try out.
by remysun
Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:25 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Scott Yanow writes : Why isn't jazz more popular
Replies: 27
Views: 17448

http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_06_oct_06/ I think other things were lost. The first was that the communication and etiquette of ballroom dancing gave way to "individual expression", as the video shows. Even bebop shows jazz growing away from its classical form into freeform expression. Atona...
by remysun
Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:25 pm
Forum: Other Music
Topic: NPR's best family CDs of 2008
Replies: 0
Views: 22656

NPR's best family CDs of 2008

Some very interesting tunes:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=97510376

I'd love to see some good breaks in a performance of "Where's The Music?"
by remysun
Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:26 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Educating about swing rhythms and schemes?
Replies: 36
Views: 23851

Re: Educating about swing rhythms and schemes?

mr. e wrote: Thanks for that link (and the image above). I googled for hours but I always only came up with sheets of "In the mood for love" or sites where you could buy them completely.
Shouldn't you include Joe Garland in your search? Libraries also have sheet music.
by remysun
Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:35 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: 1930's slow tempo songs
Replies: 10
Views: 6933

trev wrote:These are great suggestions :D I've just made a Great Depression playlist and all these tunes are top notch. Fun! (in a melancholy way ;) )
Shouldn't melancholy be :( ?
by remysun
Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:17 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: 1930's slow tempo songs
Replies: 10
Views: 6933

1930's slow tempo songs

Forwarding somethiing from a writer friend. Everything I can think of is too fast. So I'm writing this comic book script I was invited to pen by the publisher of a horror anthology charmingly entitled "Charnel House". It's a short 14-15 pager set in the days of the Great Depressions, a kin...