Yeah, but fun with Country music?? Com'on now...
-FF
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- Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:14 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Christmas songs
- Replies: 56
- Views: 47732
- Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:12 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 106192
- Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:05 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Pushing people in
- Replies: 31
- Views: 26005
Re: Pushing people in
Is it actually possible to "create" or encourage new talent, or is DJ'ing something that someone gets into only because they naturally develop a love and sense of the music they want to share? I think it takes both: 1) People need to already have a love of the music. 2) They need to be ha...
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:20 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 106192
We (the two dj's involved) have already decided it will be a mixed ECS/WCS/Lindy dance, but we're a little nervous about the requests for other stuff. We don't intend to play it, because it's a swing dance, and we hope we aren't forced to (because the number of people who dance is very small and th...
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:21 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Ethel Waters
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2643
Ethel Waters
God, I love this woman . Her early work especially (20's-30's) is impressive on many, many levels and plenty of clean recordings are available. Her ' European Classics ' Label re-issues (4 Disks in all) covers most of her best sessions, and is available on B&Noble. -FF Random addition: Original ...
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:03 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Getting pushed out
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46688
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:43 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: How about Howlin' Wolf?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6821
Re: How about Howlin' Wolf?
I do like his work like that for Blues.Yakov wrote:but some of the tracks are midtempo with a boogie woogie type beat... how do you like this stuff for lindy?
-FF
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:42 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 106192
It sounds like you have the right ideas: you have some passionate people trying to make a change in a certain direction, and you already know the music is key. It also sounds like you have some patience, which is good, because things like what you want can take some time. Keep playing the music you ...
- Tue Dec 16, 2003 4:24 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 106192
I don't see too much disagreement between us, just a matter of wording and how we interpret the words. I don't disagree with what you wrote. My point was that people hear a style of music/tempo in class. They tend to feel ok dancing to it outside of class. Cool. I agree in a sense, when phrased lik...
- Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:46 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 106192
An inspirational dancer who teaches and DJs can be a force, if he or she can get develop a following. I agree with this part of your post. The instructors are perhaps one of the largest influences, although alone they can't 'change' a general scene. A respected teacher who also DJs, or has like-min...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:40 am
- Forum: Technical Questions
- Topic: Song Database
- Replies: 13
- Views: 50284
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:13 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: History Lessons
- Replies: 41
- Views: 32094
Depending on the situation, every once in a while I'll do this. I might explain the connection between the songs I'm playing, or I've spent the final hour of a night giving a progression of swinging music from early to late or the influence of time and traveling in Blues music, or whatever I make up...
- Sun Dec 07, 2003 4:54 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Basie and Earl Hines
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5081
- Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:32 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: "Jazz the World Forgot"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11572
- Thu Nov 27, 2003 7:17 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Band rhythm section
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7236