SwingDJs

Enjoying working my way through material.
Already great versions of Blowtop, Broadway and Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie.

My Lester Young/Count Basie boxset arrived this morning. Looking forward to checking it out.

Anyway have an opinion on the Mosaic Woody Herman boxsets from a musical and swing dance perspective?
They look interesting.

http://www.mosaicrecords.com/artists.as ... rman_Woody

One set from the 60's and the other the complete Columbia 1945-1947.

Couldn't find a discussion of this before but happy to be redirected: What are your thoughts about dancing to western swing or as a music style to DJ at swing events? I know I don't like to lindy hop to it but would like some way of describing the reasons why. [this prompted by experience over the l...

I have played the Vince Giordano version in Australia for several years. Great version for a solo charleston jam circle.

My favourite is by Vince Giordano off the Aviator soundtrack.

Great energy and sound quality.

(though I will have to check the others )

A favourite of mine where the Duke plays tribute to other great bandleaders originally from 1960/61 is

We ran the Australian Hellzapoppin Competition last year where we were using DJed sound for the competition (plus a small live band for social dancing). The hall is big and has difficult acoustics so we hired a big PA and used the sound engineer that came with it. I think it helped the sound but tha...

When I was using iTunes for DJing I always created a playlist for the gig I was doing and used this as the "playing" playlist. As I wanted to play songs I added them to this playlist. Even it reached the end then it stopped playing. Also had the bonus and being the played playlist at the e...

My approach is to have some broad guidelines I use: - the flow approach - taking the tempo up in increments (then I usually drop the tempo in one step) - if I have played a long song then I try to play a short song afterwards - I try to mix it up in terms of the styles of swing music - I will follow...

One tip that helps me remember/find songs: I use iTunes as my library and associate the CD cover as an image to the relevant songs. This gives me a visual cue in my memory and in iTunes to particular CDs. Also you can set a "flip through CDs" sort of view on your search area. Then can get ...

I actually found a copy of the Hal Angel's CD yesterday, paid my money and then received the email saying they had already sold it on another website. So i figuring someone else on here beat me to it

I had the same issue after buying a new MacBook after using a Echo Indigo. I went for the Echo AudioFire2 - powered from the Firewire connection. It comes with a long Firewire cable which is cumbersome so picked up a retractable cable. I am happy with the sound (which I think is speced the same as t...

Gunther,
The Cement Mixer track is by Jimmie Lunceford - can find it on the Proper box set

http://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Luncefor ... 433&sr=1-2

ps will be at SSF hopefully DJing

Purchased my copy.