SwingDJs

I read that bio, read it again, then scratched my head ... where did you get that Lawrence b/c it doesn't jive with what I've seen before. One of the most accessible of all jazz pianists, Gene Harris' soulful style (influenced by Oscar Peterson and containing the blues-iness of a Junior Mance) was i...

Count Basie - Put it Right Here

I've actually had some surprising moments where a request has actually worked against my expectations. One of the most memorable was DJing at the Legion in Vancouver one night and a request came in for Blu Cantrell's Swingin' . I had just started my set, but the dancer was leaving and, hey, I had it...

Wow ... the first official Gene Harris thread ... amazed it took this long.

Al Green - Take Me to the River
Laverne Butler - Backwater Blues
Barbara Morrison - Down by the River

You'll need one of these too to set the mood:

Platypus wrote: I would more likely take note of an all-guy night in Houston before an all-gal night.

Some of us guy DJ's in Houston are just too lazy to get out of the house

But as long as we provide free DJs the event directors will only pay a very few of us. They're only paying what the market will bear. For someone like me, I don't really care about getting paid that much. I only dabble in DJing and whenever I go to an event I want it to succeed. For example, at a l...

smunky wrote:i have been trying to pre-empt that shout by being the first to yell (if i am not dj'ing and something goes wrong): "LOVE the DJ!!!!!"

When I hate, I love

I hate you smunky!

Just recite on the count of three ... "KILL THE DJ!"

Two other points: Do names matter? Yes. People told me how much they like different DJs when I was planning the DJs for last year's ALHC. Yeah, but did it make the difference that they were going to the event? As I see it, there are four possibilites from that statement that you made: 1) They are g...

All of this makes me wonder how much impact does getting a nationally recognized DJ have on an exchange's attendance? Personally, I really don't pay that much attention to what DJs are going to be at an event. What matters more to me is that the event is in a town where I have good ties to the local...

GemZombie wrote:Can't you just see Reuben reading this topic and fighting to stop from vomiting?

Hey, it's not only Reuben

Oh how I miss CDNow.com. Life was so simple back then. They had everything I ever wanted (well they listed everything I ever wanted). I could search for anything and find anything. They had clips of almost every song. Their artist bios were informative had links to more artists. I spent hours at th...

dude, you cannot bring barbara into that statement, she plays a completely different sound, and should/would never be brought into a discussion of neo-swing music. Never meant to imply that Barbara was neo-swing ... just trying to make the point that the right feel re: the production of the album c...