SwingDJs

It's been around for at least a year, that I know of. I first heard it in a class at CJ last May.

Travis wrote:PHJB is my favorite by far.

Ditto. And I saw them perform it live in Portland about a month before Christmas. I had to shake my thing.

I like 'Sig Ep' off 'Woody Herman-1963/The Swingest Band Ever/Woody's 25th Year...His Greatest'

Yep that's the full name of the CD I think!

Andy Kirk

Very easy method is to play the DVD on your computer/laptop and use Audacity to record the audio. You can export that as an mp3.

My favorite is "Frankie's Flat" from the 1998 John Anson Ford Amphitheatre concert featuring an 89 year old Lionel Hampton, still swingin'! There's no sample on allmusic but the track is on iTunes. How's the rest of the album? Nice line up of performers. I have a version of this off the a...

I haven't had problems with it - JRiver user here. Before I actually DJ'd with it, I really gave it a thorough testing at home using VLC, Windows Media Player, JRiver. The idea was, I start with the lightest (lite) software to play my music, then go progressively up through the bloated WMP, to the p...

My friend brought a copy of A Great Day in Harlem to watch yesterday and I thought there was a clip where they said something like 'if it were the 1930s right now and Andy Kirk was playing this tune, you would not be sitting still in your seat'. The tune was definitely My Blue Heaven. Does anyone kn...

Sorry but I didn't understand that girlfriend analogy at the end.

Many thanks

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPUdV9uPDo

It's good whatever it is!

So refreshing (and relieving) to see a few people share this view with me too. I often default to thinking I am musically ignorant when I realise I have an opinion such as this - seems that may not necessarily be the case!

Also C jam blues with Duke Ellington: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CkJmy3FUs8&NR=1 I love that one! Here is another one: Louis Armstrong - Swingin' on Nothin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDSyVrdO8Nw (There is a couple of black dancers doing 2 eights of Shag) That one seems to have got del...

Yep I have that one. (The David Berger one)

Very interesting comments. Was it the first concert of its kind there? Did it come before Waller and Ellington? Maybe that is a reason it is so lauded? If it wasn't the first, then I can only guess that what you say about the release of the LP preserving its memory for future generations is near the...