SwingDJs

So, there's the pastperfect label (http://www.pastperfect.com) that some people have talked about. I thought it would be cool to start a resource thread on good bargain distributors/labels. I just picked up a 4 CD Slim Galliard set from Proper Records (http://www.proper.uk.com as well as http://www....

Eight Slim Galliard CDs.

Thanks. I just went through a few other CDs and found a really slow one at 78 bpm, by Glenn Miller. Doesn't swing really hard, but it's for a tap class purely to get used to doing a set of steps to music.

I don't have many versions of this in my book, but I'm looking for a slower version of "Take the A Train" than the one played by Duke Ellington (which sits, generally around 160-170 bpms, it seems). Anyone got any suggestions? I suppose I could take the one I have and slow it down myself...

Lots of people see them either buying water, splitting a pitcher of water or eating the snacks and they assume that they're being cheap. They're not. Let's not assume. This probably comes across as asshole-ish, and I'll preface it with the statement that if there's cover, then I don't really think ...

I live in NYC. Here we had a little problem with most of our venue's closing (for whatever reason). Now we have a few choices: there are 2 DJ dances, there is a Friday night dance to live music and there is Monday night at luci's. I can't believe that NYC would have a shortage of danceable jazz ban...

It's a two-way street. The venue Brenda mentioned is not dancer-friendly in that there is little space to dance, the floor isn't great, and, unless you're totally clueless, you should order food or a drink. Yeah, dancers can be completely clueless and totally cheap. "Small dance space" an...

I think the better question instead of how to bring live music _into_ a scene is how to get dancers into a live music scene. So many scenes revolve around a venue(s) that is dancer-centric. This means that if dancers want to dance to live music, it's expected that live music is brought _into_ the da...

Beginner classes do really well on "neo-swing" sounding stuff, vocals or not. People in general have been so conditioned to cardiac-rhythm-altering bass that even if there are vocals and the vocalist is singing on the beat (like Ella's Mack the Knife, where the words in phrases like, "...

I wanna know why Tommy Dorsey's song is called "Satan takes a holiday"

My job as a DJ is to play swing music for swing dancers. I attempt to keep the floor packed through the music I play. First and foremost though is to play music for swing dancing. That's also my definition of my job as a DJ. However, I'm not going to be the one to dictate what does or doesn't make a...

Are we changing the dance to a point where we no longer need to dance to even jazz music or no longer music that swings? Let alone swinging jazz and blues of any kind. We have dj's on this board who say yes. They are influential dj's in their own scene. and they say soul is good for the dance. I sa...

Being a lindy-hop purist DJ is a luxury. If your scene is big enough and evolved enough to let you do that, that's great. But recognize that it's a luxury. I personally don't subscribe to the "play it whether they'll dance to it or not" school (which is just one of many opinions on how to ...

Yakov wrote:international sweethearts of rhythm
international sweethearts of rhythm
international sweethearts of rhythm
and international sweethearts of rhythm

And unfortunately, they only recorded one album.

I have heard that a hard drive larger than 240 GB becomes significantly slower as the disk itself can't spin as quickly. Also, though probably not an issue these days, the USB 1.0 connection (I think most externals require USB 2.0 or Firewire) is also quite slow (not sure how this would affect DJ'in...