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OK thanks Nate for the opportunity to segue into the next artist whose name is Tom Baker who did work with Dan Barrett. Tom Baker was a Sydney based trad jazz exponent. He was born in the USA but became an Australian citizen so we claim him as one of our own. He unfortunately died recently at the yo...

Another one of my favourite Sydney jazz guys is Dan Barnett. He sings and plays a mean trombone. He runs a big band that plays once a month at a pub in Balmain. The gig goes off with some of the top players in Sydney there. Unfortunately very little dance space. His website is http://www.danbarnett....

I will add to this topic with different great Australian jazz groups that I have used for Djing or danced to. The first featured group is John Morrison's Swing City. They are a professional big band based in Sydney Australia. They were featured in the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony. They mainly do ...

OK I signed up for eMusic this month. Being OS from the US it is reasonably good value to get music via this means. With the luxury of unlimited downloads gone are there are more precise recommendations eg great tracks on a otherwise not great album? I have just started exploring but there is a lot ...

A small intro. I am from Canberra Australia but have spent a lot of time in Sydney. We have a small but growing scene here where I teach and DJ. To continue on from what has been said - for myself personally you cannot beat a great live band. Last Sunday night down in Sydney I heard a great 14 piece...

In the movie "Tap" with Gregory Hines one of the old guys does a great version of Sunny Side of the Street. The movie has a soundtrack out but I can't find a track listing for it (yet).

Thanks Jesse. By coincidence I think I picked it up a couple of weeks ago here in Australia. I haven't had a chance to listen to it much. Maybe that was why the song sounded familar
I had a look on Amazon and it is now available as an import.

I have just arrived back from a dance camp and need some help in identifying a song. It is a vocal version of "Sent For You Yesterday" and has a very distinctive chorus of "Let it roll Mr Basie, let it roll" repeated. The vocalist was male and I assume the band was Count Basie (b...

What about some of the Duke Ellington small group material. I have a CD at home but can't reference the name at present.

Australian group eType Jazz do a great version of Fever on their "More Than You Asked For" cd. Check them out at
http://www.etypejazz.com

Great minds think alike BTB - I was just searching for a thread to post my question when up came your thread. A question along a similar line - how much overlap is there between "Cutting Butter" set mentioned above and the "Americas No 1 Band : The Columbia Years" link Is it wort...

I picked up this boxed set on the weekend. Great packaging with very informative liner notes and photographs. Also great music. Chose this set above Proper set becuase it had a version of Topsy. I haven't listened to all of it yet but great so far especially Topsy!

Retrospective 1934-53

I stumbled across a second-hand copy of "Simon Says - The Sights and Sounds of the Swing Era 1935-1955" by George Simon. He was a contributor and later on the editor of Metronome. This book contains samples of his articles and reviews from Metronome in the swing era. It also has side comme...

Engelbert Wrobel has a website and if I understand the German (sic) correctly his CDs are available from it. http://www.engelbertwrobel.de/discographie.htm He is on the Dan Barrett cd "Harlem 2000" on the German Nagel Hayer Records label which I picked up via Amazon. I like the stuff on th...

I did a search and couldn't find her already discussed. I picked up "The Incomparable Mildred Bailey" (Columbia - Legacy 2003) over the weeked. The blurb lists her as a influence on Ella. Anyone used her stuff for dancing. Any comments on the Proper set? So far like "Wham (Re Bop Boom...