SwingDJs

I was in a bookstore the other day and heard some really good music from someone called "Big Mabel". Can anyone here recommend some specific titles ? Also, on the Biography channel, I saw a special on Ann Margret. I heard some of the songs she did earlier in her carreer and she could swing...

One fast number I really like is Benny Carter's rendition of Perdido. It's over 7 minutes long though. On the faster tempo stuff: I like to play music that has a bit of a Dixieland feel to it. It gets the folks to finally use the Charleston stuff they've been learning in class. I also like to play a...

I tried: "Everybody get together" by the Treniers last week. It seemed to do all right.


JG

I think it's important to have some silence between songs. I remember one time when I was not enjoying my dance with someone (her nails were digging in my hand, and she had bad breath) the DJ had strung together 3 songs with no pause making it about 12 minutes long. When the forth song came on, I th...

If I need to speed up or slow a song, I use Cool Pro to do it before I burn my mixes. Since 1999, I've only done this to 3 songs that I can think of. I rarely got good results for the effort. (Cool Edit Pro has a pitch control to keep the pitch as original as possible).

JG

Peter Davis has a nice Waltz on his first album. Track #9, late blooming Waltz.

JG

I spoke to a DJ for the Montreal Argentina Tango scene last week. He was explaining to me that the way the DJ's DJ for a dance in both Montreal and (apparently) in Argentina is something like this. 1 Set of Tango taking music only from 1 orchestra in 1 period. If you don't have enough music of one o...