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The Campus Five will be featured on the episode of the Ellen Degeneres Show airing this Monday, 2/14. We tape tomorrow (ie. Thurs.) and it should be great! To be honest, I'm not sure exactly how much of us will show up on-air, but I suspect quite a bit. Also, we'll be lucky to have Josh Collazo play...

12 discs, which is really 5 packages.
Proper Box 4 disc
America's #1 Band 4 disc
Cafe Society Uptown 2 disc
Swingsation Series
1937 vol. 4 - masters of jazz

And none of it was recorded after 1950.

That list seems incredibly pejorative. Sounds like a bunch of modern jazzers who have little appreciation for or real knowledge of boogie-woogie. Also, Boogie-woogie is perfectly danceable.

For live Basie I think of these:
1937 vol. 4 - Masters of Jazz (Live in 1937 at the Savoy)
Cafe Society Uptown 1941 - (Live in 1941 sans Pres, but you can really hear Jo Jones well)
There's also a live collection of Basie stuff from 1944 on cdbaby.com that looks very interesting.

If you're looking for a modern player of traditional boogie, you will do no better then Carl "Sonny" Leyland.

Basically the only LH small groups that I know of are all on the classics chronological, like 1936-1940. You'd have to double check allmusic or something like that.

Oh, almost forgot

Big Sid Catlett - led a quartet with Ben Webster. Look for the tune "Just a Riff."

Other notable small groups: Cootie Williams Sextet from 1941-1944 Illinois Jacquet sides from 1944-1947 Lionel Hampton small group stuff from 1936-1940 Arnold Ross Quintet featuring Benny Carter - "Bye Bye Blues" is a favorite Hot Lips Page 1944-1946 has some good stuff on it. If vocals ar...

You could always make your genre descriptions much much more specific.

My ipod is really the best thing to happen for me musically in a while. The random access to my entire collection at all times is unbeatable. The ability to make purpose playlists - like "wedding/background music", "1939", or "130-140bpm", or "Lester Young" - ...

BOB - It's Pamama Francis and The Savoy Sultans - Everything Swings - Viper's Nest - 1996. Specifically, it just so modern sounding and just doesn't swing in 30's/40's way - its very post 50's Basie, not in a good way. Also, most of the songs are 4+ minutes, and the songs just tend to go on and on, ...

Benny Carter - The Music Master - Proper Box Anita O'Day - Young Anita - Proper Box Rex Stewart - 1934-1946 - Classics Various - Spirituals to Swing - Vanguard 3 Disc Peggy Lee / Benny Goodman - Complete - Columbia Lester Young - The "Kansas City" Sessions - Commodore The Savoy Sultans wit...

Artie orginally went by the name "Art Shaw", but changed it because it sounded like a sneeze.

Here's an odd request situation. I was DJing in Hawaii for the after hours at HiLx, and I get a request for "Tuxedo Junction" so they do the Shim Sham. I've hated that song for so long, and ordinarally, I would have tried to get around it. But I'd decided to give the Erskine Hawkins origin...

My band played these for New Years in San Diego:
Man From Mars
Carioca
Comin' On
Bedford Drive

I was also tempted to play "There'll Be Some Changes Made", and to have the Campus Five play "Hop, Skip and Jump."