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Re: Insurance issues
Not only collection insurance, but liability insurance is needed. I have been to many venues that would not allow a dj to set up without a $1,000,000.00 Liability policy in effect. www.adja.org it's cheap insurance for Dj's I've heard that required of the organizer by the venue, but never the DJ, u...
- Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:17 am
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: Great Southwest Lindyfest
- Replies: 123
- Views: 85968
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:54 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Jay McShann
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19624
I have his Proper Pair but am very unimpressed by the sound quality of the older stuff (and this is coming from me!). Does the JAzz Archives or Chronological have better sound quality in regards to the 41-43 material? I've got the Jazz Archives disc and the sound quality is pretty solid. You don't ...
- Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:37 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who do you play most?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15545
Above all else: Count Basie Bennie Moten Jay McShann Duke Ellington Honorable Mention: Pete Johnson, Buster Smith, Lester Young, Slim and Slam Buster Smith? Really? Do you have music I don't know about or do you just heavily rotate the seven(!) songs from The Legendary Buster Smith ? As for me, I'd...
- Thu Jan 01, 2004 11:04 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Who do you play most?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15545
- Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:57 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Djing w/ iPod
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11655
Well, unless I got a cool little powerbook, it's hard to lug 2 devices around. But I understand the not being able to preview thing. Personally, as backwards as it may sound, I actually still carry my CDs with me. But in case I have missed something, esp. buying stuff from iTunes and not have time ...
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:11 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Jay McShann
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19624
Jazz Archives' Jay McShann: Kansas City Bounce 1941-43 is a good snapshot of stuff from his big band when Charlie Parker and Jimmy Witherspoon were with him, but a lot of overlap with the Chronological Classics stuff. Still Jumpin' the Blues was released within the past few years and features Duke R...
- Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:36 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: ECS/Lindy/WCS - Bridging the Gap
- Replies: 173
- Views: 105343
my thoughts on neo and its overestimated necessity can be found at the bottom of this page. When I think of neo-swing I think of the slew of bands in the mid-late 1990s that followed in the wake of Royal Crown Revue and the Brian Setzer Orchestra. Essentially it is ska in a different and much more k...
- Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:39 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Christmas songs
- Replies: 56
- Views: 47238
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:41 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Blues: free association
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12092
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:39 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Christmas songs
- Replies: 56
- Views: 47238
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:23 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: The stuff you don't like
- Replies: 152
- Views: 82860
Re: The stuff you don't like
There are some very popular swing/jazz musicians whose music I dislike. Because I dislike it, I don't buy or have it. This gets me into a sticky situation when somebody requests it. For example, I strongly dislike Sinatra (just my taste, nothing more), but there are some skillful dancers here who l...
- Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:05 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Neo Swing in your binder?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 27148
I have it in boxes somewhere, I don't carry it because I don't want to play it. I don't want to hear it, either, and not carrying it absolves my consicence if someone were to ask for it--if they ask (and they rarely do), I don't lie when I say I don't have it. I spin for predominantly-newbie crowds ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:32 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: "Rack 'Em Up"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6355
- Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:43 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Theme Songs
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42397