SwingDJs

I do not "fail to comprehend" it; indeed, after I read your set list, I don't think there is much disagreement, here. I did not mean to imply that they danced exclusively to slower stuff and never, ever danced fast. I also clarified that I meant that they did not generally dance fast all t...

Rueben, I also noticed from your "Tribute to the Savoy" playlist that you only played 20 out of 65 songs over 200 BPM, with many songs down to 110 BPM.

I wish I would have been there to hear it. Sounds like an interesting set.

Duke Ellington recorded several versions of "C Jam Blues" with violin. The original violin solo became about as integral a part of the song as the trumpet "solo" is in "Corner Pocket." That violin solo is sometimes played note-for-note by other instruments in non-violin...

I guess the deep-seeded/unspoken question was is this "swing music" and/or "does it swing"? I know it was a little rhetorical, but I was just trying to expand upon the initial question with an example... In answer to that question, tempo does not determine whether something &quo...

Whether something "is insulting" often depends more on the insecurity of the recipient than the actual substance of the professed insult.

Is this an accurate depiction of what they played at the Savoy Ballroom? Or is it just in their repertoire for when they actually recorded. Of course Chick Webb wasn't able to record nearly as much as we all would have liked him to -- so I don't feel we have a very complete/accurate depiction of hi...

First, I distinguish between swing rhythm and swing music. Swing rhythm exists in much more than just swing music: it's perhaps the most common rhythm in all of American music: rock, country, etc.... I interpret any comment that something "swings" as either 1) poking sarcastic fun at swing...

CafeSavoy wrote:

Lawrence wrote:for even the edgier, late-60s Coltrane stuff that used to sound like annoying noise to me.

some of it is annoying noise .

...and that was the very point: shocking the listener with dissonance....

not a joke. I cannot stand Miles Davis, John Coltrain, Dizzy Gilespie, Slim and Slam, the standard issued stuff from those guys. I have heard one slim gaillard song that i like, and I know that coltrain played in other bands that I like, but i am just talking about what they are known for, what get...

Kyle wrote:yeah J, I try to stay as far away from Miles and company as possible. I cannot stand to listen to that stuff


same with Slim Gaillard and Jack Kerouac.

Are you serious??? Or just joking?

In general, Hi-Fi completely changed the way drummers played, as with all musicians. . Lawrence you are so off on this. Jo Jones of the origional Basie band is the man who changed the way drummers played. He toned down the bass drum sometimes ommiting it all together. He moved the playing of ride r...

I don't see a trap, I see a hornet's nest.

Suffice to say that there are differing opinions on what is and is not obscure and scratchy.

Actually, yes, I mean both. They did not play it that way (or did not think to play it that way) in large part because the audience would not hear it if they did; or if they did hear it, it would come out as crashing noise, not a crisp hit, both in recordings and large venues. Hi-Fi (and bop) change...

That's cool. I think I misread your original post and had a knee-jerk reaction to the rip on BG in Hi-Fi and the "hitting the high-hat" comment (which you would not hear in lo-fi music...), taking it as yet another, overplayed rip on all non-Swing Era material. Much more common ground than...

Does anyone really play "obscure scratchy swing-era songs?"

. . . (biting my tongue.... )