SwingDJs

I'm pretty bummed! CDNow was my best source for CDs. Amazon killed a really great resource by replacing the CDNow site with their own. I'm going to remove the link on my web site to CDNow. What other sites have others here had good experiences with? Aside from the wev, all that I have to work with l...

Ellington's version on that album is a faster tempo than most I have heard. It's a nice version. At the risk of straying a little on this topic, one of my all time favorite tunes is "Three J`s Blues", cut #1 on Ellington's "Blues in Orbit". The sax intro gets everybody's attentio...

...does a lot better at adding "thump" to the rhythm section on 30's recordings than any regular eq I've used... My RCF-300A powered speakers do a heck of a job at low frequencies. Mackie bought out RCF a few years ago and at first they continued to build RCF speakers while retooling the ...

At first I didn't want to move away from the mail list, but now I like this much better. It is more welcoming to see tacit invitations to discuss things other than swing music. We can talk about non-swing music here freely without getting beaten up by purists. We can talk about tech issues and gig s...

Nope. But I use a Behringer Feedback Destroyer Pro DSP1124p . It took me a few times to figure out how to set it up, but once I figured it out it made an amazing difference in the sound quality. I have had several venue managers tell me that my system is the best sounding system they have ever heard...

Not me. I look for transitional songs that bridge the gaps between different musical styles. I do everything I can to make the musical flow seamless. I don't want dancers to notice the changes as they are occuring. I want them only to notice in retrospect. Tango dance communities have very different...

As a dancer it drives me nuts where there isn't a gap since half the time whoever I'm dancing with doesn't realize the song is ending and then all of a sudden notices "wait, this is another song" and then you've got that nervous little moment where you try to decide if you should dance an...

Depends on the scene and the dancers. For Lindy crowds I put 1 or 2 seconds between songs. For Westies - no space. I even clip the blank space off the ends of songs when I build complation discs so songs will play back to back with no space when I use the auto-start feature to move from CD to CD on ...

Your poll needs another choice. I use it all the time when teaching classes. It is much easier than trying to organize different songs with different tempos. And I think it is easier on new students to practice to the same song at different tempos. In beginner classes I use it to slow the tempo. In ...

Downeastdancer wrote:...many require fading because they are really long.

What a terrible thought!! Ugh!! Please Abbie, not while I am in Waltz heaven with a lovely lady.

Some of my standards for waltz, listed from easiest to dance to to most difficult to dance to... Wall Around Your Heart - Maura O'Connell The Simple Waltz - Junior Mance Trio Angel - Sarah McLachlan Kiss from a Rose - Seal Song of Redemption - Andy Statman Quartet Jitterbug Waltz - Junior Mance Trio...

Of all of the versions I have heard the one that has stuck with me through the years as my favorite is the first one I ever heard. Our swing scene was brand new - only about three months old. Due to a mishap in scheduling, Indigo Swing was left without a Saturday night booking so I managed to pick t...

I had a signature song when I was a radio DJ. But I can't remember now what it was. That was too many years ago. I think it's been 15 years since I was on the radio. These days, as a swing dance DJ, I don't have a theme song. But I've been told by some that I have a few signature songs. One would be...