SwingDJs

Hey everyone, I've had the opportunity to start DJ'ing a bit in Portland (an actual swing scene, as opposed to tiny little Corvallis, where I've been doing events) and each time has been very successful, and I have to give everyone on this forum a huge chunk of the credit, because everything I've be...

Unless they've changed something MS media player only rips at like 64k. It's horrible.

I don't see quite the disparity between grinding and deperessing music. It seems to be part of human nature to return to "life-making" activities in the face of death, or at least to think in that direction. Depressing and sad music seems like it would invoke the same sort of reactions, lo...

I was caught by this quote: The jazz sophisticates could try to compete; instead they choose to hole up like so many eschatologists in the desert, awaiting the second coming of Eric Dolphy. and can't help but wonder how much this led to neo-swing BEING a fad. Did people realize Setzer and CPD aren't...

Remember too, that newbies aren't "atuned" to the music yet. It's tough to hear the rythm, let along the swing, in some of the really vintage stuff until you know what you're listening for. You might have better luck getting newbies to dance fast to modern swing than vintage, just because ...

Well, like everything else in life, there's hardly a hard line between Neo-Swing and modern "new" swing, and it all kind of drifts backwards through Jordan and Calloway back to "real swing." I think as you listen to swing music and let your tastes grow you can start out liking st...

I'll be up there and would love to go CD shopping Just don't let me spend too much!

--J

My professionalism scales along with the amount I'm being paid. I don't mean to be vulger, but whether or not, and how much, I'm being paid defines the relationship. If I'm doing a freebie, then the organizer is relying on my pride and sense of personal responsbility to get his needs met, so I play ...

I'm pretty sure I have the two sets they're talking about (currently in B.C. so can't check right now) but if I do I can bring them down and let you give them a listen.

So I hope you guys will humour me here, since obviousely this isn't a ballroom board, but I think the connection between swing and foxtrot is fairly obvious, and while it doesn't matter a huge deal in the swing community, in our mixed "we do all dances because we have to" community in Corv...

Fantastic explanation Doug! I'm about 10x smarter about Jazz than I was 10 minutes ago, thanks!

This is what we ended up with: 2 Peavey TLS-5x speakers http://www.zzounds.com/item--PEVTLS5X 1 Peavey LV 900 300x2w Amp http://www.zzounds.com/item--PEVPV900 1 Mackie 1202VLZ Mixing Board http://www.zzounds.com/item--MAC1202VLZPRO 1 Shure Performance headset mic http://music1online.com/thd.html We ...

I was in a musicallity class last year with Andrew Sutton and he broke swing and blues songs down along these lines: (any mistakes are mine, not his) Swing songs have an 8 count rythm set into sets of 4 phrases. Those 4 phrases are ALSO in a set of 4 (roughly, and not counting the intro). In the 1st...

God I can't type a coherant message on here. Sorry. Mostly for DANCES. Freebie lesson beforehand.

Mostly for classes, although we do the freeby lesson before the dance that obviousely has less people.