SwingDJs

julius wrote:Bechet, because of his incredibly fat tone.

not too hard to pick out those soprano saxaphones

Has anyone ever noticed who wins in audience judged dance contests? Children, old people, and idiots in red suspenders doing off time airsteps. I congratualte you all on competing to be the DJ equivalent. I also think the audience members at HJDF will be a whole lot more educated than your typical ...

Stephane Grappelli's Violin
Ben Webster's tenor Sax
Lester Young's tenor Sax
Chick Webb's drums
Artie Shaw's clarinet
Django Reinhardt's guitar
Lionel Hampton's vibes

i think these guys are pretty easy to pick out

SirScratchAlot wrote:

Platypus wrote:
is the whole song on there? Slim and Slam, only played the intro, the rest was done by the studio's Orchestra(Universal?),

where did you get this information from pete?

Ron wrote:Jesse, I think this board has been quite a success so far. Lots of people are posting and saying interesting things. Thanks for starting it!

funny, i am pretty sure it was Reuben's idea, not Jesse's to make the move to a phpbb.

nope we didnt change the speed, its a faster version that I have only been able to find on this album, the rest fall around 190 where as this one i think is 280 bpm.

If you were looking for the version we used for mad dog (before we edited it) it is off of this 4 disc James, Dorsey, Goodman, Miller box set

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 27-8844140

i remember reading in some of the old liner notes about how some people would quickstep to some of the faster songs too. also there was that swing foxtrot dance; i think Frankie and Norma demonstrates on one of the Herrang video. At the savoy, they would tend to do the peabody around the track to t...