SwingDJs

I wish I'd never bought a Laserlight collection of Count Basie.

because it meant i would, someday in the future, spend thousands of dollars on jazz music.

oh wait maybe that's OK.

yes, and thanks.

I don't DJ, but my theme song is definitely Eddie Reed's version of Jazznocracy. Why? Because it's the first song I ever danced to where I felt like I was really, and I mean, REALLY, doing Lindy Hop. Like, so in the moment that even trainwrecking was being a golden god. (Also, Eddie Reed was playing...

Uh yeah, by "that flat one with all the photos" I meant the complete hot five and hot sevens.

but what do you mean by "you can dance to bop?" Tap adapted to bop. So did solo dancing. Partner dancing -- difficult. "Say What?" by Miles is Lindy Hoppable. Is that the sort of danceable bop to which you are referring? Or by "danceable" are you referring to free-form...

Essential Saxophone: Lester Young, complete studio sessions on Verve, and Proper Records Lester Young box set Essential Trumpet: Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or the not-out-of-print ... um, that flat one with all the photos. uh, yeah. Essential Guitar: Charlie Christian, ge...

btw "louis armstrong" was pronounced "lewis" by louis himself, but most people used 'lou-ee' and he just went with it because, well, EVERYBODY did it.

at least, from what i remember reading in a book.

downbeat still does blindfold tests. it's one of the best columns ever. a lot of times the musicians will be 100% on the money, which goes to show how well real musicians know their music.

Lawrence wrote:I'd appreciate feedback:

You are a doofball, and your writing is pompous.

Basie played more in Harlem than he did in Kansas City. He had a summer-long gig at the Famous Door*, but when he was BASED in KC, his band was a territory band that played one-nighters all over the midwest. Note too that Lester Young, thought of as a KC tenorman, actually lived in Minneapolis, LA, ...

Umm, if you have to have 85% songs by African-Americans and you can only play 6 songs, ALL SIX must be songs by African-Americans.

you guys need to cut each other. that's all there is to it.

if someone plays a song that you can top, you should.

just remember: low energy = DEATH.

you can dance to bop. you can't lindy hop to bop, or at least not comfortably. musically the difference is a much less pronounced steady rhythm and a more irregular rhythm, exemplified by the drummer dropping bombs on the kick drum instead of thudding a 4/4. time is usually kept on the ride cymbal i...

let's face it, you guys SUCK. I could beat all the listed DJs with a lawrence welk CD and sheer FORCE OF WILL, a.k.a. a big mouth. you guys are piteous: wa wa wa my music is better than your music wa wa wa dancers are sheep wa wa wa. i think collectively you guys have half a ball to go around, and t...

round one of smack talk goes to dave and rayned.

reuben LOSES.