Best of contemporary swing music
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Best of contemporary swing music
I'm part owner of a company that among other things act as record company and release retro music (swing, jump blues, rockabilly etc.)
We're thinking about making a collection of modern swing music (modern as recorded after 1990 and artists that still are active, and swing as in classic swing - no neoswing or jump blues etc)
The album should primarily (though not exclusively) be marketed for the jazz audience in Europe to show what modern swing music exists, but also be a great sampler for dancers wanting to buy music for lindy hop.
So I wonder if you would pick songs for an album like this, what artists and songs would you choose.
/Patrik
We're thinking about making a collection of modern swing music (modern as recorded after 1990 and artists that still are active, and swing as in classic swing - no neoswing or jump blues etc)
The album should primarily (though not exclusively) be marketed for the jazz audience in Europe to show what modern swing music exists, but also be a great sampler for dancers wanting to buy music for lindy hop.
So I wonder if you would pick songs for an album like this, what artists and songs would you choose.
/Patrik
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Local favorite Boilermaker Jazz Band, one of their more Lindy Hop friendly records being one of their latest, Panama. A great testament to powerful New Orleans early jazz. (samples)
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Classic big band swing with Swing City from Sydney downunder at
http://www.swingcity.com.au/cd.html
Includes samples of the tracks. Includes some great arrangements of classic tracks and some solos from James Morrison (trombone/trumpet) who has toured with Gene Harris in the days of the Philip Morris Superband.
http://www.swingcity.com.au/cd.html
Includes samples of the tracks. Includes some great arrangements of classic tracks and some solos from James Morrison (trombone/trumpet) who has toured with Gene Harris in the days of the Philip Morris Superband.
Word!falty411 wrote:Also, I must say that Josh Collazo and His Feetwarmers are my current favorite contemporary band. They are from Socal.
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The Feetwarmers rule.
However, I have to admit that, in my book, John Reynolds and his Hollywood Hotshots* win out by a hair.
*Sort of a catch-all name for any group containing (usually) John Reynolds (g), Ralph Reynolds (washboard), and Westy Westenhofer (b, tuba).
Bonebrake's Syncopators are awesome as well.
Oh yeah, and I don't think that anyone's mentioned the Titan Hot Seven yet. They're not strictly a swing band, but any jazz band I've ever heard would be hard-pressed to top the TH7.
However, I have to admit that, in my book, John Reynolds and his Hollywood Hotshots* win out by a hair.
*Sort of a catch-all name for any group containing (usually) John Reynolds (g), Ralph Reynolds (washboard), and Westy Westenhofer (b, tuba).
Bonebrake's Syncopators are awesome as well.
Oh yeah, and I don't think that anyone's mentioned the Titan Hot Seven yet. They're not strictly a swing band, but any jazz band I've ever heard would be hard-pressed to top the TH7.
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They don't have to have a cd out yet, as long as I can get a good recording.kbuxton wrote:Porkpie, but they don't have a CD out yet.
Still in the end we will have to choose from what we can get and make the collection as good as possible.
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Pete's address is jazz@petepetersen.comLazyP wrote:They don't have to have a cd out yet, as long as I can get a good recording.kbuxton wrote:Porkpie, but they don't have a CD out yet.
Still in the end we will have to choose from what we can get and make the collection as good as possible.