SwingDJs

So reading the results of Mr DJ 5x5 prompted me to wonder how selective people were in creating their DJ Book. I assume that most of us burn a prefered set of tracks rather than drag around a whole CD collection. What percentage of your swing/jazz songs do you consider danceable in that you take the...

Julius - Couldn't agree with you more about Lester's Awesome Stuff! Actually I put him in a category above the tenor players that I listed, so didn't include him. (Huh?) And some of his stuff out of the late 40's is way danceable. I regularly include Symphony Sid (1947 - 143 bpm) and The Sheik Of Ar...

So recently I've started playing some late 40's & early 50's tenor sax sounds. I think that a lot of it is unmitigated crap, but my current favorites include: Al Sears (Johnny Hodges), Castle Rock, '51 170bpm Earl Bostic, Flamingo, '51 107bpm Earl Bostic, Steam Whistle Jump, '52 182bpm Eddie Cha...

Ya mean I gotta have 25 CDs?? OK Come On Baby, Fletcher Henderson 220bpm One O'Clock Jump, Basie 170 bpm Running Wild, Jimmie Lunceford 248bpm Stampede In G Minor, Elmer Fain 214bpm Ball of Fire, Gene Krupa 195bpm From the back: What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry, King Pleasure 135 bpm Do You Or D...

just because there are some dancers that do not have the abiltity , does not mean it's not danceble. Go ahead and restrict your scene.... You presume to know what I mean by danceable????? How do you know that I am helping to restrict my scene?? How do you know what I consider danceable? How do you ...

If you won't flame me, I'll be entirely honest. I have about 1200 tunes that I have burned and comprise my dj cds (ya- I do update them regularly). I have the music on them cataloged - and printed sheets that I drag along with me - by title, by artist and - hold on, hold on - by BPM. I find it usefu...

We're swing djs. Presumably we play for swing dancers. I suggest that we restrict ourselves to danceable.

So yes. A lot of bop is hard to dance too - eg much of Parker (Note: Parker's Just Friends off his 10,000 strings album is a favorite of mine.) But there are a lot of very danceable "bop-tinged" pieces out there that swing and were in fact intended for dancers. For example, a number of the...

Some (probably) obvious suggestions? I will ignore all the reprise swing groups like Bill Elliot, Mora, etc. 1. Any of Panama Francis' post war stuff 2. Kieth Ingham, especially Mellow Bit Of Rhythm which focuses on Mary Lou Williams pieces 3. Oscar Peterson 1945-47. Ya, it is hardly post war, but o...

3 or 4 months ago I had just finished playing some up-tempo piece by Goodman (can't remember which one, but do remember that it was over 200 BPM) when one of the dancers came up and asked for "something fast". A little conversation revealed that he couldn't feel the beat unless it was inyo...

I have the entire set and have to say that it is a great collection, but they all sound like Billy May pieces. Not that this is bad, but despite the large number of songs, it is difficult to play too many (more than one? even one?) in a single night. What I have used them for primarily is to help id...