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We've got our Lindy Exchange this weekend. I'm looking for some new tunes. Got any current faves you care to share?

(If I had) Rhythm - Wingy Manone
Baby Brown (Instrumental version) - Fats Waller
Demi-Tasse - Duke Ellington
You are my Sunshine - New Orleans Moonshiners
Old Feeling - The Palmetto Bug Stompers

For some slower non-lindy tunes:
Travelin' Woman Blues - Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur
Broken World - Shemekia Copeland
Born to Live The Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Stand By Me - Playing For Change (check youtube)

And finally, West Coast:
Down - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne

3 current 'happy' faves:
Milt Herth Trio [Willie 'The Lion' Smith] - The Dipsy Doodle [1937]
Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven - A-Tisket, A-Tasket [1938]
Ovie Alston and His Orchestra [Claude Hopkins] - Walkin' the Dog [1938]

I've been digging some of the stuff off the Edgar Hayes 1937-1938 Chronological Classics along with some stuff from Bennie Moten's band like Kansas City Breakdown, Moten Stomp, Rite Tite and The Count.

Lady Black Wife - Alan Shelley & Manu Dibango's
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bi_BZQxQZk

alainw wrote: Stand By Me - Playing For Change (check youtube)

I love this version.

Some things that are new to me:

This whole Goodman CD is excellent: 50 Tracks in One Day: with one hour for lunch, of course!: recorded in 1935, just before they hit it big on the West Coast.

"My Blue Heaven" and "At the Jazz Band Ball", Bing Crosby, from the new Mosaic set.
"Keep the Rhythm Going", Mills Blue Rhythm Band
"Georgia Cake Walk", Art Hodes, on the Eddie Condon JSP set.
"It's Tight Like That", Luis Russell and his Burning Eight
"My Melancholy Baby", Bechet, 1952, it's on the Tresors 4-disc Bechet set.

I've also been on a Carl Sonny Leyland kick lately, after hearing him play in Monterey. "A Chicago Session" has some good tracks, as does "Boogie & Blues".

Hmm. Those are all on the slower end (below 180 bpm). Two faster ones:

"Jumpin' at the Woodside", Alix Combelle, on "Django and his American Friends"
"I Got the Ritz from the One I Love", Jack Teagarden, the Bix/Tram/T Mosaic

anton wrote: Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven - A-Tisket, A-Tasket [1938]

That's so weird - I was just listening to this!

Toon Town Dave wrote:I've been digging some of the stuff off the Edgar Hayes 1937-1938 Chronological Classics along with some stuff from Bennie Moten's band like Kansas City Breakdown, Moten Stomp, Rite Tite and The Count.

I love that stuff, I'm going to have to revisit it.

A Rhythm Rascal Cocktail - Zasu Records #7, the latest CD by the Reynolds Brothers is great for DJing. You probably won't get it delivered to Perth before the end of the exchange, but you'll definitely have other chances to use it.

Lorenzo

Lots of good tips here gents! Big thanks!

I'm dying of envy.

Here're a couple of things that I've found useful lately:

Jesse put me onto Catherine Russell and while it doesn't make me insane with love, there are a couple of songs there that have made dancers crazy - first time I played 'Just because you can' _five_ people asked me for the song's details. It's not a song that I'd get all nuts about... but it pushes all the right buttons for some female dancers. Could be useful crowd-pleasing cheap wins there.

...not that I'm saying you're _cheap_, Trev.

I've found Echoes of Swing (and various band members' other projects) useful lately as a hifi gateway drug for convincing the kids the old school action is giggedy. They're a pretty decent lot of musicians, and they do some songs that are already popular with dancers...


I find this sorts of hifi stuff is very useful when I'm faced with a crowd who aren't into scratch, or when the sound system can't hack scratch, or when (for ceiling cat's sake) I just want something crisp and clear and _still_ swingingly good fun.

dogpossum wrote:...not that I'm saying you're _cheap_, Trev.

Oh, I'll go there! Actually, I think that track would work really well. I might play it up against Norah Jones' Sinkin Soon: Has a similar feel, and might make a nice modernistic hook into the real stuff*

dogpossum wrote:I've found Echoes of Swing (and various band members' other projects) useful lately as a hifi gateway drug for convincing the kids the old school action is giggedy.

Yacht Club Swing ✔

*just baiting

I don't usually do this, but I'm gonna post my setlist after tonight's gig. Good chance some of these tracks will be included!

trev wrote:Yacht Club Swing ✔

*just baiting

Inside joke? The version of "Yacht Club Swing" by Echoes of Swing is sweet!

trev wrote:I don't usually do this, but I'm gonna post my setlist after tonight's gig. Good chance some of these tracks will be included!

Looking forward to seeing your play list.

Jesse

Set list form last night.

(Hullabaloo, Perth Lindy Exchange)

Cherry In My Lemon & Lime - The Three Riffs
Shoot The Sherbet To Me, Herbert - Tommy Dorsey
Don't You Miss Your Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon
Just Because You Can - Catherine Russell
Black Bottom Stomp - Sidney Bechet
That's The Rhythm - Three Sharps And A Flat
Apollo Jump - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me) - Una Mae Carlisle w Lester Young
Call Me A Taxi - Will Bradley & His Orchestra With Ray McKinley
Satisfy My Soul - Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra
The Ball Game - Wynona Carr
Milk Shake Stand - The Three Barons
The Frim Fram Sauce - Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald with Bob Haggarts Orchestra
Fiddle Diddle - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
In The Mood - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra (Jack & Jack Contest)
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters (Jill & Jill Contest)
Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive [live] - Ella Fitzgerald
Shoo Fly Pie - Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, f Hilary Alexander
Leap Frog - Les Brown
All In Favor Of Swing Say "Aye" - Tommy Dorsey
Dreamer's Blues - Rex Stewart And Wingy Manone
Tuxedo Junction - Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson & His West Indian Orchestra
Deep Forest - Earl Hines & His Orchestra
That's What Makes My Baby Fat - Faye Adams
I Want To Go To Heaven And Rest - Wynona Carr
Well Alright, OK, You Win [live] - Count Basie & His Orchestra
Just Kiddin' Around - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
Jumpin' At The Woodside - Alix Combelle
Tutti Frutti - Slim & Slam
St. James Infirmary - Hot Lips Page
The Goon Drag (Gone Wid De Goon) - Sam Price & His Texas Blusicians
My Blue Heaven - The Cangelosi Cards
My Melancholy Baby - Sidney Bechet
Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Crytzer's Blue Rhythm Band
On Revival Day - LaVern Baker
Tamburitza Boogie - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Buona Sera - Louis Prima (inspired by first episode of Treme!)
All Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald
My Melancholy Baby - Sidney Bechet
Why Don't You Do Right? - Lil Green
Rite Tite - Bennie Moten
Blues In C Sharp Minor - Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Blow Top Blues - Dinah Washington w Lionel Hampton & His Sextet