SwingDJs

GirlieGirl, I thought this would be a good time to quote myself (!) from what I posted earlier. Also, kudos to ALX for not pretending to be something their not. We may hate to admit it, and there *definitely* are people who fall into multiple categories, but just as the LA Binge or ULHS caters to on...

His cd with City Rhythm Orchestra has quite possibly my favorite version of Things Ain't What the Used To Be.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... axqj5wojsa

(Thanks Swingboy!)

CafeSavoy wrote:Do you really need another tuvan throat singing compilation?

Well since you brought it up, I highly recommend both the movie and the soundtrack of Ghengis Blues

the music DID trump the theme. Here here! Even JC played a great set of swingin' music as oppossed to the normal westie stuff! LOL! This was definitely one of the best exchanges I've been to in awhile in terms of quantity *and* quality of dancing. The amount of dancers still remaining when after ho...

The following text was included in the Attendee Email that went out yesterday, since it applies to the DJs, I thought I would post it here as well. There was a lot of text in the email and it is easy to overlook things. If you are interested, let me or Lawrence know, we can probably come pick you u...

Here, here! My favorite version is by far from Live at the Sands. They swing their asses of on that one. There have been numerous occassions where I felt the DJ before me wasn't playing much swing in their set (or as much as I like) and I've used that as my first song to set the new mood. For comple...

I think Shirley's great, but,....hmmm...*the premiere* singing pianist in jazz since Nat "King" Cole!? That's funny.

What I find funny is that everyone I've met always associates "Wade" with the "Westie" scene when I heard it in Lindy circles for a long time before I heard it at a Westie dance. My understanding was that the song first became popular in early 2000 in the west coast swing world ...

Greg, this is your dream thread! Where are you???

Fine, Mike, you win. You answered the question I wrote. I was looking for specific versions of specific songs (so that we could discuss those songs), which I thought was clear in my post and which Reuben and Lawrence answered for me (assuming, of course, that Lawrence meant the 1940 Ellington versio...

Just curious, Lawrence (or anyone). Are there any swing songs that follow the 12-bar format that you would *not* consider blues? Great question. Yes. "Jack the Bear" by Ellington. (It does shift from 12-Bar to AABA, then back to 12 Bar to finish the song, with clear 4-bar transitional phr...

Thus, Ellington's 1942 cut of "C Jam Blues" is in the Swing style, and therefore I wouldn't call it a Blues tune even though its in the 12 bar blues format. Bingo...that's what I was looking for. Thank you for answering my question, Reuben! So this is interesting. It seems like you are sa...

Mike, you still haven't answered my question. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, so I apologize. Can you - or anyone else - give me a specific example of a 12 bar format song that you feel swings that you wouldn't consider to be blues. Is there a specific swinging version of c-jam blues (not a rock or tec...

falty411 wrote:Just as I have heard hundreds of swing songs use the format, again, I personally wouldnt call it blues.

For example?

Just curious, Lawrence (or anyone). Are there any swing songs that follow the 12-bar format that you would *not* consider blues?