SwingDJs

In light of a thread I started on Yehoodi (http://www.yehoodi.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=61691), I was just curious what are some of your favorite birthday jam songs. This of course being for people you don't know and have no reason to play something specific for them (ie: really really fast, or rea...

Definitely Houston. Maybe Austin. See you then!

Great question! For starters, how 'bout:

Night Train deriving from a riff from Happy Go Lucky Local
Moten Swing deriving from a riff from You're Driving Me Crazy
Bill Elliot's Twelve Cillinders deriving from Topsy in general

My best-request-highlight happened just a couple months ago at Swing City in Boston. I kid you not. Someone came up and said "This song doesn't really swing, ya know? Can you play some swing music, please?"

The song? Take the A Train from Ellington at Newport 56.

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Yay! Alright, I'm gonna press my luck. Al Casey is of course a baby in comparison to the still living Lawrence Lucie , who I got the honor of seeing playing a killer St. Louis Blues a few months ago. The trumpet player during that session was Joe Wilder and the piano player was 81 year old John Bunc...

GuruReuben wrote:

Shorty Dave wrote:Does 1950s Ellington and Basie count?

What are you taking Jazz history lessons from Joe Lanza now or something?

Ha Ha Ha...that's actually pretty funny.

Ok, then let me try again. How 'bout Al Casey?

Does 1950s Ellington and Basie count? 'Cuz if so then Clark Terry counts. As do Frank Wess, Benny Powell, and Frank Foster...

Of the Swing Era artists, who is left? ... Can we count Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry or is that a stretch? Junior Mance definately doesn't count. I'm curious as to what you define to be "Swing Era Artists". I find it interesting that you're not sure about Oscar, yet Junior Mance definat...

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I'm curious, anyone have any Lucky with Earl May on bass by any chance? Earl used to play with Lucky and played quite often at the Savoy when he had week long and month long gigs there. Of course, Early May is currently part of the Junior Mance Trio who you all saw Sun night at HJDF.

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There is also some awesome stuff By Slim after Slam left. Slim's group was the house band at Billy Berg's in Hollywood for some time and had some of the greats of that era drop in on him for fun , like Dizzy, McVea,Parker etc...There is a great CD out there with this line up...they do some of the s...

Greg Avakian wrote:I got the CD from my Dad since the producers sent him one.

Name-dropper!

It hasn't been mentioned yet, so I gotta do a shout out to the classic April in Paris cd!

the Tap tribute wasnt really a tribute until the hot shots got out there and actually did something to pay respect to the tap legends before them. I didn't see the tap tribute, but to say that the tap dancers before the hot shots weren't paying tribute to their legends (just 'cuz they didn't copy a...