SwingDJs

While it's not actually Django playing (his son, Babik, plays on a couple tracks though), this CD is absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend it.

Warning: Generalizations ahead. "Group A" are complaining because: 1) They don't hear enough of the music that they want to hear. 2) They feel that a term (or terms) is (are) being misappropriated. "Group B" complain because: 1) Group A complain about not hearing enough of the mu...

When I DJ in Sacramento, I don't really ever worry that anybody has played anything that I might play on any particular night. That's how polar DJs' flavors can be up there, heh. Like ice cream and Tabasco sauce...kinda. Anyway, I never play the same recording (or even the same song but by different...

Ellington recorded a song with Ivie Anderson in the 30s called "Swingtime in Honolulu." I like the Mills Brothers' "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua Hawaii." King Oliver recorded a song called "Everybody Does It In Hawaii." There's also a CD on eMusic called "Sl...

They recorded four? I thought it was two sides in 1929. Of course, I could be totally wrong.

It's like Star Trek. Deep Space 9 and Voyager are two completely different shows. It would be wrong to watch Voyager and say, "I'm watching Deep Space 9." Sure, they're both Star Trek, they're both based on the same concepts, but the details are different. Likewise, Lindy Hop and the-danc...

I have yet to encounter any problems with old files.

The Hot Club of San Francisco has a good version on their CD "Claire de Lune."

Werd. I'm excited, to say the least.

My music is organized almost completely haphazardly with no consideration paid to any factor that might make locating things easier. Some stuff is in a giant binder. Other stuff is in small binders. Yet other stuff is still in the original cases. In other words, thank God for the fact that I have a ...

Given that your sets were dealing with Basie and Herman, a lot of the material would have been recorded later than a lot of the Ellington and Armstrong stuff on my sets, so I can definitely understand that yours might have better sound quality.

I love that book, although I agree that the organization seems kind of random.

To me, the way he writes (prose, I mean) reminds me somehow of his music. I guess he just writes the way you'd expect Duke Ellington to write.

I've bought a couple of them - Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. For the most part, I found the sound quality to be only mediocre (sometimes unacceptable for DJing). But maybe it's just those two specific sets.

Probably Ellington's "Jungle Nights in Harlem." That's been my favorite song (even just from a listening perspective) for quite a while. For some reason, though, now that I think about it, I hardly ever play it. Go figure.

That sounds awesome.

And thank you for spelling the song "Dark Rapture" and not "Dark Rupture," as it's sometimes (mis)labeled. Heh.