SwingDJs

Thanks from me too!

I was particularly proud of finding that one!

I'm not one of those suckers who doesn't understand the concept of value.
Or rather, I do understand the meaning of value. Whatever.
Over 70 minutes of music is pretty hard to top without being a multi-disc set.

The new Campus Five album, "Crazy Rhythm," is now AVAILABLE: http://www.campusfive.com/crazyrhythmsmall.jpg Here are the tunes: 1.Boff Boff(Mop Mop) [Hawkins] - 2:32 - 227 bpm (1944 Metronome All Stars) 2.Jacquet in the Box [Jacquet] - 3:07 - 146 bpm (1946 Illinois Jacquet) 3.Honeysuckle R...

It's a little restrictive, but pretty right on.

Wow, I think you should try to play stuff distinctly different that the band during breaks. Although maybe what I consider different isn't sooo different. I'll be DJing between Mora's Modern Rhythmists at Camp Hollywood. I definately won't be playing anything before 1937. No Dixie, Hot Jazz or early...

That first track sucks. Except not all at.

Like I said, I wasn't bad mouthing the guy. He's just not the end-all, be-all of Gypsy Jazz.

Trust me, I did some checking around with some other real Gypsy guys, and he's purely a novelty. I'm not trying to be mean, when you see so much praise lauded on somebody who isn't that great, and while most swing people don't even know or care about some of the really good gypsy stuff around. I'll ...

That kid from Clearwater is so overrated. Unfortunately, most Django-style players are ametuers, so the standards are really not very high. If you ask around the Gypsy-jazz community, he's really not special - at all. He's more of novelty, if anything. In the jazz communtiy, it takes a lot more to b...

As a bandleader and musician who's tried SO frickin' hard to get that vintage sound, both live and in the studio, let me share a couple of things I've figured out - God knows I've still got more to learn. 1. The Beat - The "swing" feel of late 30's-early-40's swing is different that the mo...