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From Spirituals To Swing [Carnegie Hall Concert]
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:20 pm
by 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?
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:28 pm
by russell
Interesting artilce in Time magazine from 1939 on the concert:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 63,00.html
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:05 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:31 pm
by J-h:n
lipi wrote: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.)
Re: From Spirituals To Swing [Carnegie Hall Concert]
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:37 am
by Haydn
russell wrote: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.