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by CafeSavoy
Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: What do you do when iTunes won't play a song?
Replies: 5
Views: 7719

You'll get that message if the audio file or its directory is moved or deleted. Either click yes and find it manually, or if it's happening a lot just clear the library and redefine the watched folder. If iTunes would just move to a dynamically refreshed watch folder(s) like Winamp has, you wouldn'...
by CafeSavoy
Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:03 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?
Replies: 12
Views: 7931

Re: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?

They are together on LP/CD in Brussels in 1958, IIRC. Good recording. They also recorded together on the Yale University set. are you sure you're not thinking of the same brussels dates, rayned? those were issued in the yale archive series. Yes, those songs are on the yale archive series, but the v...
by CafeSavoy
Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:37 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: iPods - what's the point?
Replies: 24
Views: 23329

It's a real ad. It's from some jazz blog.
by CafeSavoy
Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:16 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?
Replies: 12
Views: 7931

Re: Favourite recording of ... He Ain't Got Rhythm?

Eyeball wrote:
anton wrote:(Was this the only time JR recorded with BG?)
They are together on LP/CD in Brussels in 1958, IIRC.
Good recording. They also recorded together on the Yale University set.
by CafeSavoy
Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:13 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: iPods - what's the point?
Replies: 24
Views: 23329

Eyeball wrote: I just coulnd't figure out why they were so popular -
Now they are targeting your demographic....

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by CafeSavoy
Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:19 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: DJ Controllers
Replies: 8
Views: 37754

from another thread http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?p=447365 A mate of mine at work has just asked me the same question (Hello Carl, if you're reading this). I'm going to point him towards this thread, but here's the text of an email I've just sent him; midi controllers; These...
by CafeSavoy
Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:04 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Does this DJ software exist?
Replies: 27
Views: 25588

It's not as elegant as a one software solution, but you can drag & drop from Audion to itunes. http://www.panic.com/audion/
by CafeSavoy
Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:54 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or other?
Replies: 76
Views: 47206

Yes- I heard Flo play a few times. Was great! There are MANY famous jazz musicians who got their start in Pittsburgh: Earl Hines Roy Eldridge Billy Strayhorne Mary Lou Williams Dodo Marmaroso Stanley Turrentine Maxine Sullivan Erroll Garner Art Blakey Dakota Staton Ahmad Jamal Slide Hampton Benny P...
by CafeSavoy
Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:28 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or other?
Replies: 76
Views: 47206

Re: Your local Lindy Hop scene - Uses real Swing music or ot

Does the local Lindy Hop scene in your area use real Swing music from the 30s and 40s and maybe some Jazz from the 20s? Or does your local LH scene use non-Swing and non-Jazz to keep itself going? I'd like to know how much real Swing is being used nation-wide. ps - How much real Swing does your sce...
by CafeSavoy
Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:41 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: The piano in swing
Replies: 38
Views: 21624

Just an FYI, Rollini, although he could play piano was much better known for his bass saxophone playing and it was his playing on that instrument that really made him famous. Rollini along with Otto Hardwick really put the instrument on the map when it comes to Jazz music... Thanks for the info. I'...
by CafeSavoy
Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: The piano in swing
Replies: 38
Views: 21624

Spice Girls' creator looks for another Glenn Miller By Oliver Poole Last Updated: 2:08PM BST 15 Jun 2001 THE pop music impresario who launched the Spice Girls is recruiting musicians for a "big band" in the style of Glenn Miller in the hope of taking the sound of 1940s swing to the top of...
by CafeSavoy
Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:34 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: The piano in swing
Replies: 38
Views: 21624

Re: The piano in swing

Eyeball wrote:
CafeSavoy wrote:
Eyeball wrote: Have you Henderson play?
No, he died before I was born.
Well - your belated DOB also prevents you from hearing almost all the classic Jazz performers and recordings we talk about here. Pity.

Try this instead :

http://www.spicegirlsforever.com
Is that another glen miller site?
by CafeSavoy
Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:00 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: The piano in swing
Replies: 38
Views: 21624

Re: The piano in swing

Eyeball wrote: Have you Henderson play?
No, he died before I was born.
by CafeSavoy
Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:01 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: The piano in swing
Replies: 38
Views: 21624

Re: The piano in swing

When I looked up Fletcher Henderson, most of what is written talks about his arranging and his bands; his piano playing is hardly mentioned. But I guess it is interesting to know which instruments people played as well, and I suppose it can help you discover more about their history and their music...
by CafeSavoy
Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:45 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Does anybody know in what year [...] was recorded?
Replies: 6
Views: 5121

Toon Town Dave wrote:I have that info on that recording of Tuxedo Junction in the liner notes of the CD titled "Black British Swing" which coincidentally just arrived in the mail from the UK yesterday.
Good CD.