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nice mix. what cd has that hawkins' jersey bounce?

oh, i finally found a copy of Skyliner with The Last Jump; nice tune.

"At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There’s no beat anymore. Yo...

The Mills Brothers did a cd with Count Basie that's pretty good. Also they have a cd on Jazz Archives (47), Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers that pretty good too. It also has a track with Duke Ellington and one with Cab Calloway and the Don Redman Orch. The last few tracks are just them, and...

so, when i'm done I am looking for another book to read, any ideas? here are book recommendations from http://www.dacapopress.com/jazz/books.html Contents In Their Own Words Classic Lives For All Jazz Lovers Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong "By far the most revealing documen...

there's some good violin playing on the oscar aleman recordings.

falty411 wrote:
At the savoy, they would tend to do the peabody around the track to the really fast songs.

what exactly is the Peabody?

The problem with violin is that it is classically played with Classical music sweeps and sways, not with Swing music's rhythms and breaks. Thus, most violinists who dabble in jazz tend to be too classically influenced to make their solo work interesting. There also is something about the violin, it...

GuruReuben wrote: PS For anyone curious enough, I'll gladly post the data this average is based upon.

sure, post it with song names and tempos, so we won't have to count all those beats.

the question of tempo is an interesting. just speaking from a smallish sample it seems the early/transitional swing music (fletcher henderson, mckinney cottonpickers, etc) was faster; seems to mostly start around 200. and in the next generation of music the mode seems to be between 160 and 200. with...

the other interesting thing about the swing era was that there was more general knowledge of a variety of dances. including those we now call ballroom dances; which were done differently then they are done now since that was before the hegemony of the dancesport phenomenon. i remember reading in som...

nice.... the one i have has no vocals i think it's the duke ellington blanton-webster band with ray nance. i was listening the 100 Anniversaire set and it has that version; i think it's the same version on the blanton-webster set. a great version, and after the violin there's some beautiful mute wo...

Kyle wrote:there is that really amazing version of CJam blues, that has a big violin part in the middle. i think it's basie, but im not positive

there's a paul gonsalves/ray nance version of c jam blues/duke's place with some violin; although this one has vocals.

claude "fiddler" williams also has some decent stuff.

You don't play Slim Gaillard or Cats and the Fiddle? Or Benny Goodman small groups? and no silly trios without drums either. the nerve of oscar peterson and nat king cole, thinking they can swing with half a rhythms section. and all those stride and boogie woogie pianists pretending to be a band al...

sorry, i pulled it from the other thread, and i thought that people read that and would just translate their opinion to this poll. and polls are an easy way for people to speak their opinion with being discovered. i got that, i just wasn't sure what narrow definition was from the other poll. i've b...