SwingDJs

It's Sidney Bechet and yes, it's "When the Saints Go Marching In". I have it on the CD "Runnin' Wild"; I imagine it's on other compilations as well.

fredo wrote:
Any other BPM counting free-ware out there that people recommend?

thanks

I use ArBPM. Free, simple, accurate.

fredo wrote:
Any other BPM counting free-ware out there that people recommend?

thanks

I use ArBPM. Free, simple, accurate.

Nat Gonella & The New Georgians, from "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - available on iTunes.

There's a nice live instrumental version by Duke Ellington HERE , from "Duke Ellington at the Alhambra" in 1958, with Johnny Hodges front & center, that I like and have played as a change of pace. Mellow groove with a splashy finish.

And is this it, or this video one of the other artists people have mentioned here? That sounds to me like the standard Erskine Hawkins version speeded up. Or a very good pastiche of it. Y'know, I'm pretty sure that's the "Snakehips" Johnson version. Virtually the same arrangement as the E...

Me too.

Back to "Don't Be That Way", my favorite is Chick Webb's uptempo version. I like Jimmy Dorsey's too (from "Swingsation"), as an alternate to BG's.

lipi wrote:

Lipi, can you advise on an album? I can't find it.

chrono classics, 1949-1950 -- sadly no sound samples at amazon.

There are sound samples at allmusic, HERE.

Eyeball wrote:
"Troubled"? What is that one?

The "Troubled" I know of is under Bunny Berigan's name - HERE

I just thought I'd mention a few more songs where the major theme is in a major key. I assume you mean "minor" key. FWIW, another song in AABA form, with the "A" in a minor key and the "B'" in a major key, just popped into my head: "What's Your Story?" by Fle...

"Cool Yule" - Louis Armstrong
"Stay a Little Longer, Santa" - Shemekia Copeland

The saxophone in Billie Holiday's recording of "Them There Eyes" always gets me. Definitely on repeat, it's great from start to finish. Isn't that Lester Young? (Or maybe Ben Webster... gotta look it up). I figured that was Lester Young too, but I did some Googling and it turns out it's T...

Another early Miller song I like is "Community Swing", from "Best of the Big Bands: Evolution of a Band". Not superlative but a good solid swing tune. That CD also includes Doin' The Jive, I Got Rhythm, Dippermouth Blues and a couple of other decent swingers, especially compared ...

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(I Googled one of the lines of lyrics)