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Best of contemporary swing music
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:44 pm
by LazyP
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
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:26 pm
by funkyfreak
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)
-FF
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:24 pm
by gatorgal
Please contact one of our local artists here in South Florida, Abbe Samuels at
abbes12@aol.com or visit her website at
http://www.abbesamuels.com/vision.html.
Tina
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:12 pm
by russell
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.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:43 am
by Ron
Eddie Reed Big Band
Mora's Modern Rhythmists
Campus Five
Peter Davis
Bill Elliott Orchestra
Jennie Lobel
Ernie Krivda
and for jazzy bluesy vocalists:
Barbara Morrison
Lavay Smith
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:19 pm
by Roy
Yoko Noge and the Jazz be Blues, does some great swinging Blues.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:52 pm
by kbuxton
Porkpie, but they don't have a CD out yet.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:11 pm
by falty411
Porkpie was pretty sweet when I heard them play in Seattle.
Also, I must say that Josh Collazo and His Feetwarmers are my current favorite contemporary band. They are from Socal.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:27 pm
by yedancer
falty411 wrote:Also, I must say that Josh Collazo and His Feetwarmers are my current favorite contemporary band. They are from Socal.
Word!
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:23 pm
by SpuzBal
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.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:49 am
by Yakov
word to the BMJB!
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:55 am
by LazyP
kbuxton wrote:Porkpie, but they don't have a CD out yet.
They don't have to have a cd out yet, as long as I can get a good recording.
Still in the end we will have to choose from what we can get and make the collection as good as possible.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:58 am
by KevinSchaper
LazyP wrote:kbuxton wrote:Porkpie, but they don't have a CD out yet.
They don't have to have a cd out yet, as long as I can get a good recording.
Still in the end we will have to choose from what we can get and make the collection as good as possible.
Pete's address is
jazz@petepetersen.com
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:08 pm
by Soupbone
Folks keep telling me that the Titan Hot Seven are the shiz. They have CDs out, I do believe.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:00 pm
by SpuzBal
They have four. Three are under the names Titan Hot Five or Titan Hot Seven, and one is something like Jeff Barnhardt and Bob Draga with the Titan Hot Five (I think all this info is correct).