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by Eyeball
Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:02 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

The Japanese once and may still employ a phrase - "middle period jazz" - that encompassed the era post Bop and pre Modern in which all the players from the Swing era who continued to record into the 50s, 60s and beyond in the styles they had functioned in 'back in the day' played......whic...
by Eyeball
Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:54 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Artie Shaw Rhythmakers Transcriptions for NBC Thesaurus
Replies: 1
Views: 2975

Artie Shaw Rhythmakers Transcriptions for NBC Thesaurus

Does anyone know if these transcription studio recordings are complete on CD yet?

They were all done circa 1937 - 1939. Probably 100 plus recordings all in all.
by Eyeball
Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:47 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: King Oliver
Replies: 1
Views: 2406

Try some of his big band stuff from circa 1929- 1930 that were recorded for Victor. Oliver still plays well and his other trumpet guy plays well, too. Good band. Those tracks were well recorded at the time and even the old LP reissues had great sound, so the CDs should sound even better provided the...
by Eyeball
Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:38 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

Yeah...those 2 you mentioned are pretty good and pretty early in the 50s, I think. His 50s stuff is pretty good, though his band takes on a Basie type style...but good, not the wall of sound that some really later Basie sounds like. James in the 60s got really commercial...just hokey concept albums....
by Eyeball
Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:37 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

There were still lots of big bands playing Swing music in the pre-neo era. Most of the ones I know of were old school bands that were still around, but los of the stuff is very well recorded in either hi-fi mono or stereo. Please name some titles. I'll buy them immediately. Sorry....I missed this p...
by Eyeball
Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:44 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

Wow.

Good quotable quotes from Julius and Jonathan and Daniel Loeb on All Music.
by Eyeball
Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:39 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Beginner lindy hopper music suggestions???
Replies: 11
Views: 10779

Never give up. Never surrender!

http://www.dancecatalog.com/cdfmreallyswingin.html

Chances range from good to high that they will still have copies.

Grab a swing skirt, too.
by Eyeball
Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:08 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: 20's Charleston
Replies: 13
Views: 11957

http://www.redhotjazz.com/bands.html

Prepare for musical madness and more than you bargained for.

A treasure trove of pre 1930 Jazz. :D
by Eyeball
Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:27 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Chris Barber
Replies: 5
Views: 4548

CafeSavoy wrote:Is he the guy who was married to Peggy Lee?
That was Dave Barbour (sp?), the guitarist.

Isn't Chris Barber one of the olde English trad guys from the 50s and 60s?
by Eyeball
Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:02 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Propaganda songs! Where do you draw the line?
Replies: 10
Views: 7272

Re: Propaganda songs! Where do you draw the line?

Would you spin any propaganda styles songs, even some thing as simple as “American Patrol” by Glenn Miller? Where do you draw the line? Without a lyric, most people will be oblivious. Even with a lyric a lot of people are oblivious. There is always someone who will be offended by something. Why wor...
by Eyeball
Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:16 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: 5000 Cylinder Recordings Placed Online
Replies: 4
Views: 4220

Nice project, though I wonder what type of usage it will get even now and even more so as the years roll by? Little or none?

Even people from the 30s and 40s are being forgotten now.

What of artists from almost 100 years ago?
by Eyeball
Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:49 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

I hope that someday I'll stumble across a decent record made by some obscure pre-neo swing band who played swing music before it got popular again. It's kinda sad when fifty year old mono recordings sound better than stuff recorded a few years ago. There were still lots of big bands playing Swing m...
by Eyeball
Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:43 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Hi, My Name is Gary...
Replies: 109
Views: 77479

I think you hit the nail on the head when you say the muscians were clueless. Our jazz community here tends to favor modern, concert style jazz where the trumpet player likes to toot his own horn for 32 or 64 bars of solo with the expectation of a standing ovation afterward. The particular folks I'...