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- Fri May 07, 2004 4:42 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: DJing band breaks
- Replies: 20
- Views: 18696
DJing band breaks
How do you DJ relative to the style of the band?? Or do you care what their style is? Is there a diffeence between the way you DJ band breaks and the way you DJ an entire set on your own????
- Fri May 07, 2004 4:28 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Bop is not swinging music??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6576
- Fri May 07, 2004 9:14 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Bop is not swinging music??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6576
- Thu May 06, 2004 5:21 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Bop is not swinging music??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6576
Bop is not swinging music??
OK. I gotta say something. I TOTALLY disagree with Kalman's belief that bop is not swinging music!!! It may not be "Swing", but it damn well swings. I am both surprised and disappointed that the "things that go bop in the night" thread was moved. Does this mean that Joe "Beb...
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:15 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: How cherished is your music?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 21631
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:12 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:09 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:59 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
No hard lines. But most of the boppers were swing era musicians who evolved a more complex style of jazz. A lot of the hard boppers and post bebop players were never a part of the swing era and I do find that many (most??) do not swing and are not fun to dance to. For example, a typical hard bopper ...
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:07 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
OH MY GOD doug Please tell me you are kidding. Nope. I'm not. And the structure of bebop (NOT FREE JAZZ) is basically just like swing. For the sake of argument, here is a list of tunes on one of my burned bop dj cds. Artist - Song - BPM - Track Date Benny Goodman - Bedlam - 220 - 4/14/1949 Benny Go...
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:51 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Sidney Bechet
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50402
- Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:44 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
[Rant=Bebop good] Bebop is good dance music! A lot of people don't like it for various reasons. So what? That Frankie disliked it doesn't mean anything to me except that he disliked it. Period. Benny Goodman disliked it and then finally came to terms with it and ran his own (short lived) bop group. ...
- Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:02 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Dancing To Bebop
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15826
<snip> I think the idea of bebop is to make music that you can not dance to. Huh?? Dizzy Gillespie, for example, used to be quite puzzled why the dancers didn't like to dance to his music. He thought that it was quite danceable. I think that the general consensus is that bebop was not a reaction to...
- Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:49 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: 50s bands for swing dancing
- Replies: 211
- Views: 116105
Julius - OK. So I see that I misspoke (exagerated??). I believe that you are absolutly right that a ride rhythm on chicking high-hats was used early on in the swing era, and that Jo Jones is largely credited with developing this style. But it wasn't my impression that it replaced the bass drum as a ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2004 9:00 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: 50s bands for swing dancing
- Replies: 211
- Views: 116105
Jerry - So I think that this will be my final effort to wrap up my feeling about '50s style big bands and to try to persuade you that it isn't just that the dancers like the filtering of otherwise blaring brass and chicking high-hats provided by the low sound quality recordings. First, let me make i...
- Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:56 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: 50s bands for swing dancing
- Replies: 211
- Views: 116105
The tracks I posted were: 1. Froggy Bottom - Big Joe Maher, 2000; Ultra-Swingers Small group. Almost all that is left of my (too) many neoswing CDs! 2. Swinging The Century - Bill Elliott, 2000; Swingin' The Century Re-creation Big Band (15-piece big band). Bill Elliott is a modern day Swing Era re-...