SwingDJs

I would focus on which environment is likely to produce the best playing . Often studio recordings, with everyone recording their parts separately sound more stilted than a "live" recording where everyone is more relaxed. Amen to that. But really, are any jazz musicians recording their pa...

Actually, the list makes more sense if you read the article. The terminology is a bit confusing; they seem to use the words "swing" and "hot" as synonyms of jazz. There's much emphasis on Bix, who certainly was a great jazzman but hardly what we'd call a swing musician.

In a Mist? Come on. It's hardly even jazz.

opie wrote:I always thought that the jitterbug stroll was choreographed originally to Woodchopper's Ball by Woody Herman.

Sure it was. Doesn't mean it can't with other songs as well.

A friend of mine wants to know songs that are very good for the jitterbug stroll that aren't 'the jitterbug stroll' song (which I hate with a passion and do not own), or woodchopper's ball, because I already own it. to which I replied Any 12 bar blues in an appropriate tempo will do, basically... ju...

Many songs from movies weren't released on record, or if they were, it could be quite a different version. And of course, many songs that were released on record have never been transferred to cd. Too bad you don't get to see Mel Tormé dance in the clip. He used to be the California lindy hop champi...

trev wrote:Great article on the making of a Mosaic box set!

Thanks for posting this - extremely interesting! I had no idea there were so many different sorts of "metal parts" and that they could all be played.

I've dj-ed a couple of tracks off Merle Haggard's great 1969 Rodgers tribute album "Same Train - A Different Time", among them Mississippi Delta Blues, and I think Gambling Polka Dot Blues. On MDB Merle even shouts "Swing out now!"

Nate Dogg wrote:Not every scene plays this type of music, in Texas you can generally get away with it.

If you get complaints, you can always play That's Right, You're Not From Texas.

dogpossum wrote:I like having other DJs play music I like - that way I get to dance to it!

Word.

Why would that make you stop?

Most of our dances are organized by a non-profit swing dance society which actually makes quite a nice profit, thank you very much. To celebrate this, a year ago or so we started to compensate djs the same as instructors: about $15 an hour, which is supposed to be used to hone your skills: it must b...

Check out his early stuff, like "Blue Devil Blues" with Walter Page's Blue Devils (1929) or "New Orleans" with Bennie Moten (1930) - it's uncanny, Rushing sounds exactly like he would do 30 years later. Also, some more Basie songs that I play a lot: "Don't You Miss Your Baby...

I've only been here for a few days, but I'd say that there's been much more variety than the last few years - I've heard everything from early '30s hot jazz to Ramsey Lewis' Wade in the Water (!). I played for an hour in the main room last night, straight big band swing era stuff. Haven't got the se...

Just got this in the Mosaic newsletter - sounds awesome: Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird And Victor Sessions #244 (7 CDs) - $119 (not yet available for preorder- Release date: August, 2009) The famed clarinetist, bandleader and author Artie Shaw was a driven individual whose vision to furnish music or l...