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- Tue Dec 09, 2003 10:58 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Swing/Jazz books
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13396
An interesting side question: Is the set of good dancing music a subset of the good listening music? Or to put the question another way do the characteristics that make jazz music good to listen to act as a necessary prerequisite to being good dance music? (my inital answer would be yes). If this is...
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:49 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Swing/Jazz books
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13396
- Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:29 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: How is your city's swing scene compared to two years ago?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 32823
- Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:34 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Joey DeFrancesco
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3143
Joey DeFrancesco
There was a workshop in Sydney I attended a few weekends ago. The main teachers were Frankie Manning and also Chazz Young doing some jazz routines. Chazz used the track "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" from "Singin' and Swingin'" by Joey DeFrancesco (Concord 2001 CCD-4861-2). I...
- Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:48 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: attn Russell: Australian swing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5993
Yakov, just saw this thread so I thought I'd better post a reply :? Busy researching this topic at present. Three groups to start with until I get time to post a fuller reply: Swing City (Sydney based big band with some nice arrangements of standards). Samples available at http://www.swingcity.com.a...
- Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:12 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Best of contemporary swing music
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15695
Classic big band swing with Swing City from Sydney downunder at http://www.swingcity.com.au/cd.html Includes samples of the tracks. Includes some great arrangements of classic tracks and some solos from James Morrison (trombone/trumpet) who has toured with Gene Harris in the days of the Philip Morri...
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:42 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Lindy exchanges local or national DJ's
- Replies: 109
- Views: 78666
This thread actually inspired to try out something different. I will be doing a set at the 2003 Melbourne Lindy Exchange. I decided it would be interesting just to use Australian music for that set. I was into Australian jazz music long before I started dancing so had a reasonable sized collection o...
- Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:21 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Chairman of the Board
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3718
Chairman of the Board
I found this new Count Basie release on Amazon and ordered in a copy. The sound quality is great. I haven't had a chance yet to try it out on the dance floor. Anyone else used this album. It was only re-released in June. The details are: Blue Note Records B00009AHLM It is a release of 1959 Roulette ...