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- Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:39 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Happy Birthday Johnny Hodges!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3372
Happy Birthday Johnny Hodges!
As the saying goes, everybody knows Johnny Hodges - at least in these learned circles - so I guess there's not much that needs to be said here. He was one of my all-time favourite musicians. He had perhaps the most beautiful tone in jazz, and perhaps the most immediately recognizable. He was perhaps...
- Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:38 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: What are you essential edits?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 88498
One of my dad's (For those of you who don't know: http://www.cilicia.com/armo_article_george_avakian.html ) biggest laments is never recording Ellington and Armstrong together. His approach was radically different from the album on Verve and it was really well planned out. Of course there were alwa...
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:15 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who plays Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood'?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 109996
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:51 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Songs with hand-clapping on the backbeat
- Replies: 26
- Views: 26809
How could I forget? Fabulous R'n'B band The Treniers has infectious handclapping on most of their songs. Also, they rock, they roll and they swing!
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:58 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Does Good DJ == Good Dancer?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27270
Perhaps the more advanced a dancer you are, the more tempting it is to gear your music to 'advanced dancers'. Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean challenging music. Many advanced dancers actually prefer the safe, medium-tempo stuff that they know well, perhaps because they like to focus on techn...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:24 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Swingin' show tunes!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11517
- Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:15 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Favorite recording of........Summertime
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14516
My all-time favourite is undoubtably from Gene Harris - but it needs ... the right moment. That it does. Some of my best blues dances ever have been to this version at Blues Night in Herräng late, late, late - like, after the sun's gone up. (On my way there in a week... here's hoping for a bit of s...
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:40 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Starting DJ
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11703
You want to be able to fade in/fade out the applause, though, especially if it goes on longer than you like. Loud applause that is just cut dead because someone arbitrarily decided that that's where the track ends can sound awful. Apart from that, go for it! The energy and atmosphere of live recordi...
- Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:12 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Looking for 'Swing When You´re Winning' style music
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10300
As far as I remember, Swing When You're Winning was mostly rehashes of Sinatra hits in arrangements fairly close to the originals, so you might want to take a look at those. I think the most swinging Sinatra albums were the ones he did with Billy May, Come Dance With Me and Come Swing With Me in par...
- Tue May 29, 2007 5:13 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Don't dance and DJ
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13751
The advice at the heart of this thread was given to new and/or up-and-coming DJs. You're right - I took the quote out of context, and if anybody misread it as general advice to all djs, my apologies. (Of course it was a very recent posting and I presumed that most here had just read it.) I just tho...
- Tue May 29, 2007 8:08 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Don't dance and DJ
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13751
Don't dance and DJ
LindyChef wrote (in the Syllabus for Swing DJ Training thread): * Don't dance and DJ ... a song here and there is fine, but you can't really do both. I think this could be a thread of its own, since I haven't seen it discussed here before. So, what's your take on dancing and DJing? Personally, I alm...
- Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:01 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: What Lead Jazz Instrument Speaks To You?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13323
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:02 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancers as Titles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8318