I wish I'd never bought a Laserlight collection of Count Basie.
because it meant i would, someday in the future, spend thousands of dollars on jazz music.
oh wait maybe that's OK.
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- Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:57 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Albums You Wish You Never Bought
- Replies: 78
- Views: 51286
- Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:01 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Theme Songs
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42383
- Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:10 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Theme Songs
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42383
I don't DJ, but my theme song is definitely Eddie Reed's version of Jazznocracy. Why? Because it's the first song I ever danced to where I felt like I was really, and I mean, REALLY, doing Lindy Hop. Like, so in the moment that even trainwrecking was being a golden god. (Also, Eddie Reed was playing...
- Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:19 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Essential Collections
- Replies: 52
- Views: 39169
- Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:05 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Bop v. Swing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27239
- Thu Jun 19, 2003 4:27 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Essential Collections
- Replies: 52
- Views: 39169
Re: Essential Collections
Essential Saxophone: Lester Young, complete studio sessions on Verve, and Proper Records Lester Young box set Essential Trumpet: Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or the not-out-of-print ... um, that flat one with all the photos. uh, yeah. Essential Guitar: Charlie Christian, ge...
- Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:36 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Immediate recognition/instumentalists
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23031
- Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:33 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Immediate recognition/instumentalists
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23031
- Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:48 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Regarding "classic" and "groove" style s
- Replies: 134
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- Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:07 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Arm chair HJDF DJ battle
- Replies: 109
- Views: 73502
Basie played more in Harlem than he did in Kansas City. He had a summer-long gig at the Famous Door*, but when he was BASED in KC, his band was a territory band that played one-nighters all over the midwest. Note too that Lester Young, thought of as a KC tenorman, actually lived in Minneapolis, LA, ...
- Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:29 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Arm chair HJDF DJ battle
- Replies: 109
- Views: 73502
- Thu Jun 05, 2003 3:17 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: Battle of the DJs - HJDF/Swing City
- Replies: 55
- Views: 43664
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 4:25 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Bop v. Swing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27239
you can dance to bop. you can't lindy hop to bop, or at least not comfortably. musically the difference is a much less pronounced steady rhythm and a more irregular rhythm, exemplified by the drummer dropping bombs on the kick drum instead of thudding a 4/4. time is usually kept on the ride cymbal i...
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:56 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: Battle of the DJs - HJDF/Swing City
- Replies: 55
- Views: 43664
let's face it, you guys SUCK. I could beat all the listed DJs with a lawrence welk CD and sheer FORCE OF WILL, a.k.a. a big mouth. you guys are piteous: wa wa wa my music is better than your music wa wa wa dancers are sheep wa wa wa. i think collectively you guys have half a ball to go around, and t...
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:51 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: Battle of the DJs - HJDF/Swing City
- Replies: 55
- Views: 43664