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'Steppin into Swing Society' is on "Braggin' in Brass". Do you mean this Portrait disc? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfexqugldhe http://www.amazon.com/Braggin-Brass-Immortal-1938-Year/dp/B000008ATJ Looks like they have the wrong track list, cause the review talks a...

transfers that are nowhere near the best ones available Which transfers would you recommend for rare mid-30's Ellington (Steppin into Swing Society, et al)? I only had those sides on Chronological Classics before and this box set is a drastic improvement in sound quality. 'Steppin into Swing Societ...

anton wrote:It is variously titled 'Rigamarole', 'Rigamorole', 'Rigmarole' and 'Rigomorole' if you are looking for more versions.

BTW, has anybody heard the Willie Bryant tracks from 1938-1949? Are they any good?

His later material is more jump. I have the Apollo/Delmark material and most of it is jump.

I'd think it's not only room size but acoustics, quality of the sound system, and quality of the recordings.

Records are different from CDs even though both are physical objects. CDs are still digital sound whereas LPs use a physical process to recreate the sound. The argument over the difference between analog and digital sound will probably continue as long as needles are still available. I don't really ...

You can also get some of Nat King Cole earlier piano work on Lionel Hampton's "Tempo and Swing" and Lester Young Trio (with Buddy Rich). You can listen to samples of his earliest recordings here: Hit That Jive, Jack: Nat King Cole Trio, The Earliest Recordings 1940-41 http://www.vervemusic...

lipi wrote: there must be more stuff from europe.

if you go to jazz-on-line and search for "1948" you will get a page full of hits, mostly vocal and/or jump.

I've been preparing a chronological DJ set when I noticed this. There seem to be very few good tracks from 1948. A jumpy track by Wynonie Harris and two so-so tracks by Erskine Hawkins and that's about it. Do you have any good tracks from 1948? 1948 seems to be rather heavy on jump blues and proto-...

I just don't get it I guess. still, there are some albums on there I haven't heard, so I suppose its worth browsing if nothing else. According to google translator: Swing Time Swing music is it timeless? It seems that the "swing time" is the present time because we are now witnessing a re...

sonofvu wrote:The male representative from California is sporting an early version of the Jerry Curl.

I think it's a conk, not a jheri curl.

Nice.

How good is this, really? It just seems like a lot of vintage Jazz men who were doing studio work in NYC got together for a recreation. Is there something that makes this one better than so many others of its kind? What are some good examples of the others? One I know of is the Fletcher Henderson R...

Who's the scat singer? I dont know who the singer is with Barnet - he looks vaguely familiar. The singer/tap dancer is Bunny Briggs. Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra James Campbell, Joe Graves, Dave Nichols, Jimmy Nottingham, Clark Terry (tp) Walt Benson, Porky Cohen, Fred Zito (tb) Frank Papalardo...

I wonder if a DJ can control a crazy floor by the music played or in some other way, preferably without losing that vital 'energy'? How would you approach this? If you create a modulated standing wave through the judicious use harmonic couplets, you can modulate the oscillations of the dancers and ...

It appears that the movie is available on NetFlix.