Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:02 pm
(Damn! I KNEW I shouldn't have gone on after the dancing poodle....)mousethief wrote:BONG.
(Damn! I KNEW I shouldn't have gone on after the dancing poodle....)mousethief wrote:BONG.
Aw come on Brenda! XYZ and GT Stomp are sooooo August 2003! Get with the times girl!djstarr wrote: I just catalogued Earl Hines Chronogical 1937-39 today; I really dig the last half of the recording with XYZ, GT Stomp, and the piano solo stuff.
I know that this is kind of blasphemous, but I never thought Cottontail was all that...altho the Ellington/Whitey's clip is pretty sick...Drew wrote:"Cotton Tail" and "Woodside" are played as much as they are for a reason: They're freaking good. They will never be played out, but it's better to dig a little deeper and find something that doesn't get as much play.
what songs do you think are stronger than woodside?AlekseyKosygin wrote:and Woodside is one of Basie's weaker ones, give me Swingin' The Blues any day over that...
you know I'm a late adopter don't you?Soma-Guy wrote:Aw come on Brenda! XYZ and GT Stomp are sooooo August 2003! Get with the times girl!djstarr wrote: I just catalogued Earl Hines Chronogical 1937-39 today; I really dig the last half of the recording with XYZ, GT Stomp, and the piano solo stuff.
If I'm not mistaken, that line sounds to me like it's actually saying something about Boola. Apparently, "Boola" was a name used by black historians to symbolize the their race (Click).djstarr wrote:I also really like "Piano Man" from the Hines '37-'39 - it violates Reuben's no vocal rule: "he's a Buddha big and cool.....Swing it Fatha Hines"
i didn't mean that woodside wasn't strong as in "powerful", i just happen to think these are just powerful but are also better musically...swingin' the blues, yeah man, and red bank boogie...all of the first recorded versions of these songs...CafeSavoy wrote:what songs do you think are stronger than woodside?AlekseyKosygin wrote:and Woodside is one of Basie's weaker ones, give me Swingin' The Blues any day over that...
I just let them happen (jams). If I play somehting that inspires people to bust out great. But, deliberately trying to get people to start a jam usually ends up falling flat in my experience.djstarr wrote:I listened to Now You Has Jazz - Louis Armstrong MGM soundtrack today; there is a cut called J.T. Jive at around 300 bpm that I'm going to try for a jam; I have not been too successful at inspiring jams up to now.
I think it's:djstarr wrote: Theres no one who swings those ivories like he can,
all about trylogy he knows how to think <maybe>
but about pianology, he's really keen, <maybe>
I agree, completely, again. (What's going on here, Kevin?) Part of my point earlier that got lost in my sarcasm (and I suspect the implied point of Greg's post I quoted) is that there is something a little lame about your scene/venue/crowd if a song, itself, inspires a jam. The problems we all have with "Jump Jive and Wail" or "Sing, Sing, Sing" are not that they are bad songs, per se, just that we (at least I and many others) am sick of them because they not only got overplayed, but that a damn jam broke out automatically if they ever were played. Everyone's dance gets interrupted, all so a few people can scream "woo" to the same 5 couples in any given scene who break out the same played-out moves each and every time. It's "neat-o keen, Daddy-o" for newbies, and an ego-boost for the participants, but it REALLY gets boring after you have seen those moves every week for the past three months.main_stem wrote:I just let them happen (jams). If I play somehting that inspires people to bust out great. But, deliberately trying to get people to start a jam usually ends up falling flat in my experience.djstarr wrote:I listened to Now You Has Jazz - Louis Armstrong MGM soundtrack today; there is a cut called J.T. Jive at around 300 bpm that I'm going to try for a jam; I have not been too successful at inspiring jams up to now.
-Kevin