From Spirituals To Swing [Carnegie Hall Concert]

[russell]

I came across this by accident [reading a NY Times Review of "In Search Of the Blues" - an interesting discussion in itself]
and my the sake of those as ignorant as myself started this thread.
There is a 3 CD collection from the concert (circa 1938)

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

It looks interesting and I ordered a copy off Amazon.

Anyone DJ anything off this?

[russell]

Interesting artilce in Time magazine from 1939 on the concert:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 63,00.html

[lipi]

i have it, but i never dj off of it. as i recall, the sound isn't very good, and of most tracks there are better versions for dj'ing on other albums.

really fun to listen to, though. golden gate quartet rules.

[J-h:n]

golden gate quartet rules.

And so does synchronicity. I DJ:d their "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" tonight. Didn't go over too well, which I should have predicted - a capella seldom does, no matter how much rhythm it has - but it was fun to try. I've loved that song since I heard Robert Wyatt's version in the 1980s. (For purely musical reasons, never mind the naive lyrics.)

[Haydn]

I came across this by accident [reading a NY Times Review of "In Search Of the Blues" - an interesting discussion in itself]
and my the sake of those as ignorant as myself started this thread.
There is a 3 CD collection from the concert (circa 1938)

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

It looks interesting and I ordered a copy off Amazon.

Anyone DJ anything off this?

I hadn't heard of that concert - it looks like a great CD set . I have never knowingly DJ'd anything from this, or heard anyone else do so. Just listened to some of the samples, and on quite a few, the sound quality isn't good enough to DJ from. But others seem fine. I like the variety of the music played.