SwingDJs

How do you DJ relative to the style of the band?? Or do you care what their style is? Is there a diffeence between the way you DJ band breaks and the way you DJ an entire set on your own????

But I prefer the Relativism Theory of Swing Dancing - where it all dependz. At least that way my diaper will fit my dingus.

OK. So maybe I owe you (Kalman) an apology or perhaps I am at least confused. I thought that "Swinging Music" was for swinging music that one plays for swing dancers and "Other Music" was for, well, other music. The suggestion that the thread dealing with bop be moved, especially...

OK. I gotta say something. I TOTALLY disagree with Kalman's belief that bop is not swinging music!!! It may not be "Swing", but it damn well swings. I am both surprised and disappointed that the "things that go bop in the night" thread was moved. Does this mean that Joe "Beb...

Because I am also a dancer, and because I love the music in the sets that I play, I want everyone to DJ with my music so that I can dance to it too.

I'll put all my babies on public display! No problem.

sonofvu wrote: I guess I was limiting my comments to lindyhop

Even then, Ruben had a good point. Joe Carroll, Eddie Jefferson. Etc.

So I'm busted! In generaral, I generalize too much!

Ya, some of his stuff swings, but, for example, his double CD Sophisticated Swing contains nothing that I like to dance to.

No hard lines. But most of the boppers were swing era musicians who evolved a more complex style of jazz. A lot of the hard boppers and post bebop players were never a part of the swing era and I do find that many (most??) do not swing and are not fun to dance to. For example, a typical hard bopper ...

OH MY GOD doug Please tell me you are kidding. Nope. I'm not. And the structure of bebop (NOT FREE JAZZ) is basically just like swing. For the sake of argument, here is a list of tunes on one of my burned bop dj cds. Artist - Song - BPM - Track Date Benny Goodman - Bedlam - 220 - 4/14/1949 Benny Go...

Kalman - Although we may disagree about the danceability of bebop, we are fully aligned here! I NEVER dj a set without including Bechet!!!! I've now got something like 8 or 10 of his CDs and am always on the lookout for pieces that I don't already have!

[Rant=Bebop good] Bebop is good dance music! A lot of people don't like it for various reasons. So what? That Frankie disliked it doesn't mean anything to me except that he disliked it. Period. Benny Goodman disliked it and then finally came to terms with it and ran his own (short lived) bop group. ...

<snip> I think the idea of bebop is to make music that you can not dance to. Huh?? Dizzy Gillespie, for example, used to be quite puzzled why the dancers didn't like to dance to his music. He thought that it was quite danceable. I think that the general consensus is that bebop was not a reaction to...

Julius - OK. So I see that I misspoke (exagerated??). I believe that you are absolutly right that a ride rhythm on chicking high-hats was used early on in the swing era, and that Jo Jones is largely credited with developing this style. But it wasn't my impression that it replaced the bass drum as a ...

Jerry - So I think that this will be my final effort to wrap up my feeling about '50s style big bands and to try to persuade you that it isn't just that the dancers like the filtering of otherwise blaring brass and chicking high-hats provided by the low sound quality recordings. First, let me make i...

The tracks I posted were: 1. Froggy Bottom - Big Joe Maher, 2000; Ultra-Swingers Small group. Almost all that is left of my (too) many neoswing CDs! 2. Swinging The Century - Bill Elliott, 2000; Swingin' The Century Re-creation Big Band (15-piece big band). Bill Elliott is a modern day Swing Era re-...