SwingDJs

Amen

WC Handy was the first real blues to composer to have huge hits. Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and scores of other mostly female singers in the 20's recorded his tunes. I love "Yellow Dog Blues" and there is actually a recording out there of Handy's Band playing "St. Louis Blues" wh...

Wow- what a photo! Yak- can you get me a copy????? Is this from a recording session, and if so, where can I get it?????

From www.jazzreview.com Featured Artist: Boilermaker Jazz Band CD Title: Give Me Your Telephone Number Year: 2004 Record Label: Boilermaker Jazz Style: Traditional Jazz Musicians: Paul Cosentino (clarinet,vocals), Jennie Luvv (vocals), Mark Kotishion (piano,vocal), Ernest McCarty (bass), Rich Strong...

Thanks for playing one of our cuts along with all those other classics! We appreciate it and hope you all are enjoying/ playing our latest CD. PLease let me know if anyone needs a copy!

Paul Cosentino
Boilermaker Jazz Band

Nathan-

Your policy sounds about right to me. I think the most important point to be made here is that you guys are actually considering what would work best when DJ-ing band breaks. As opposed to the inconsiderate DJ's who don't even try to work with the band.

Wow- I hope I can remember to respond to everything... I always try to talk to the Dj and compliment them when I like the tunes they play. I don't think that playing something in a similar style is insulting- on the contrary- I play that kind of music because I like it, and I love to hear the record...

Doug- Any of those bands would be fine with me. Also- any of the clssic big band recordings that you all love would be fine. Nate- I would understand playing something different- like if I have a 6 piece hot jazz band, and on the breaks, you would play big band stuff. But keep the big band stuff in ...

The band breaks you played at DCLX for us were great. I think playing something similar to what the band style is, but hopefully not tramping on their set list, is the way to go. I know when DJ's do our breaks, if they play a lot of Neo, or rockabilly, it seems really disjointed. And it tends to mak...

Nice post Jonathan. On my new CD, we also used a room concept, but we used multiple mics- one on each instrument, and a couple on the piano and drum kit, as well as room mics. The engineer who recorded us actually won a grammy for a Basie album he recorded live at a concert here in Pittsburgh a few ...

Yes- refer to my earlier post. It is well known, and has been stated by many jazz artists beginning in the 20's, that producers had black bands record blues, and white bands record more "proper" type songs like waltzes and trite pop tunes, because that is what they thought would sell. Agai...

Yes- it is true that today most so-called jazz fans are into smooth jazz. Ugh. It is also true that bop was never popular music. Jazz in general ceased to be "popular music" on any great scale when bop came around. There are very few, if any, bop hit records. There are many reasons for thi...

Larewence- You are correct. As I stated before- musicians I know, regardless of color- are happy to have a gig that pays. They don't care much about who is there, and who is paying, and who is dancing or listening. The point is- it is a paying gig!! That quote is hopelessly outdated, and actually to...

Most musicians I know- black and white- will tell you that who is in the audience doesn't matter- what matters is that there is an audience period. To most musicians I know- everyone is green- as in $. I agree with the notion that you can't tell just by listening if a band is white or black- or mixe...

OK- if you want to hear propaganda music- you need to check out a collection called "Hitler on the Air". These are radio transcriptions from WWII broadcasts out of Berlin. They are German dance bands, playing popular American swing songs, but the lyrics are changed. And when I say changed....