SwingDJs

For europeans you can always find the same box set for 52 Euro or less at german amazon

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 28-4516865

Brother can you spare a dime? - Blue Room Boys

Has anyone tried FLAC for encoding? It's supposed to be a lossless audio format. Which means you could rip your cds and turn them into FLAC files which should be equal to wav in quality but somewhere inbetween mp3 and wav in file size. Which means wav-files on your hd is a complete waste of space wh...

Ok, the camp in Lund, Sweden, is on this year too. After a huge success last year with people from mostly europe but also US and Canada were back. 1-3rd of october with live music friday and saturday, dj only on late night saturday and sunday evening. There's also dances thursday and monday that are...

If you like surf go for Dick Dale's version of fever, great song. I played it once at a dance and it worked fine (swings more than Peggy Lee at least)

I'd just thought I'd let you know that the cd actually exists now. It was printed and ready 29th of june (though I've been on conference and on holiday since then) Distribution release will be in august, so it will not be available in stores before end of august. Until then you can find it in our we...

Thanks for your support. It actually haven't been easy to get in touch with 15 bands, getting stuff sorted out and everyone having their say in which songs to use or not. And then getting and good mix of styles, tempos etc. I can't say I'm perfectly happy with the end result, but as always one has t...

Ooops, forgot one thing. Release date is 23rd of june (or sooner if the printers are faster than expected)

Well, after a few months of work it's here. Our new compilation "Best of Modern Swing". Featuring Bill Elliott, George Gee, Jennie Löbel, Gunhild Carling, Blue Room Boys etc. All recordings from 1997 and later, 15 tracks of classic swing (almost) Maybe not a cd for those of you who have lo...

I've played gigs several times where I'm supposed to play neo-stuff. What I've found is that there's a lot of old swing/jump stuff that works fine, just because it's so cool. Things like Louis Jordan - Got my mojo working, Lionel Hampton - Lavender Coffin are essential. Of course you can also go for...

If you like that you definitely must check out the Danish band Swing of Sahara.
http://www.swingofsahara.dk/
In the same style, trio with two guitars and a double bass.

Their album is available here
http://shop.heptown.com/product_info.php?products_id=44

I don't have the sound track, but I was under the impression Casey McGill composed it for the musical "Swing". Brian No, he composed some new songs for the musical "Swing". But they also used some songs from his album "Jump". This is one of the songs from the album. Th...

I'm in the process of making a compilation right now. It's mastered and the cover design is on the way. Release due late in may. As soon as I got the last bits finished I'll post more info on this board. But since this compilation is all with bands that play today is a bit different than using class...

Yakov wrote: but the worst song has to be "in the mood," a riff tune with an awful riff. i have an earl hines orchestra version of that song, and it klunks just as badly as the glenn miller version. that riff just happens to SUCK!

Hear, hear!
I just hate in the mood. Any version...

But seriously, I agree with you, a 'surprise' break is always my fav. Not the ones that come at the end of every phrase, or worse. But as always, there are exceptions to this "rule". Playing 'HepCat Daddies - Break' fills the floor every single time. The breaks are too many to count but t...