SwingDJs

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:50 pm**

If you were heading a Charleston Battle, what tunes might you pick?

-FF

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:45 pm**

Gimme a certain number of songs and I will give you a list. Though it's gonna be damn hard for me to choose.

Harrison

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:03 am**

Are you limiting it to music of the 20's only in 2/4 or just any music thats sounds Charlestony form the 20's and early 30's?

No songs are coming to the top of my head, but I would start looking at charts form artists like:

Fletcher Hendersion,
Fess Williams
Leon Abbey
Claude Hopkins
Luis Russell
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Bob Crosby
The Chocolate Dandies
Don Redman

The above names will cover come of the late 20's and early 30's anyway.
I really like there sound. Defining what Charleston music is may be just as difficult as defining Swing music.

Have a look at www.redhotjazz.com Fantastic 20's music site. You can listen to most of the songs too.

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:19 am**

anything with the word "stomp" in the title - really - Black Bottom Stomp, King Porter Stomp, Mahogany Hall Stomp, Casa Loma Stomp, etc.

Early Louis Armstrong is also good - I just got a Louis Armstrong and King Oliver CD that's got a lot of Charleston - good sound quality also.

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:10 am**

djstarr wrote:anything with the word "stomp" in the title - really - Black Bottom Stomp, King Porter Stomp, Mahogany Hall Stomp, Casa Loma Stomp, etc.

Stomp!

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:44 am**

Stomp! Hahaha, good one

Alright Harrison, you picky bastard

What would you pick for five tunes, and just for imagination sake, the last two are for the final round.

BtB, what would you limit your choices to?

-FF

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:50 am**

I'd consider playing the following:

"Tarzan of Harlem" 225 Cab Calloway Are You Hep to the Jive? 2:48
"Swingin' the Blues" 230 Count Basie The Best of Early Basie 2:47
"Charleston" 240 Django Reinhardt Djangology (Recall) 2:53
"Bugle Call Rag" 245 Benny Goodman The Very Best of Benny Goodman 3:01
"I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" 245 Duke Heitger & His Swing Band Rhythm is Our Business 4:13
"Panassie Stomp" 245 Count Basie The Count Basie Story (Proper Box) 2:50
"Bumble Bee Stomp" 255 Benny Goodman Benny Goodman (JSP Box) 2:54
"I've Found a New Baby" 260 Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang Good Enough to Keep 3:05 (slow intro lasts about 23 seconds, but sets up the fast stuff).

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:20 am**

Some that I pulled up real quick that I might use include:

Bennie Moten - "Small Black" (Count Basie, Kansas City Powerhouse)
Bunny Berrigan - "Honeysuckle Rose" (Not sure what album)
Cab Calloway - "Beale Street Mama" (Best of the Big Bands)
Fletcher Henderson - "You Rascal You" (Tidal Wave)
Sidney Bechet - "Shake It And Break It" (Ken Burns)

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:08 pm**

ok, here are some specific picks:

Sugar Foot Stomp - 209 - Fletcher Henderson - Ken Burns Jazz
Mahogany Hall Stomp - 185 and Potato Head Blues - 180 (both from Louis Armstrong - Ken Burns Jazz
or for an updated version:
Mahogany Hall Stomp - 202 - Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife[LIVE]
Bugle Call Rag - 204 - Dicky Wells Orchestra w/Django Reinhardt (and his american friends)

and the top two:
Casa Loma Stomp - 292 Casa Loma Orchestra - Anthology of Big Band Swing
Black Bottom Stomp - 265 Wynton Marsalis - Mr. Jelly Lord

South Rampart Street Parade - 225 (Bob Crosby) on the Anthology of Big Band Swing would also work well.