My First Gig

[julius]

My SECOND gig.

In a Mellow Tone -Duke
Tippin' In -Fulton Street Jazz Band
Sent For You Yesterday -Basie
Skol Sister -Basie
Taps Miller -Basie
The Blues Are Out Of Town -Laverne Butler
Rose of the Rio Grande -Lawrence Brown
Main Stem -Ellington
Summit Ridge Drive -Big 18
Jersey Bounce -uhh, I forgot to write down the artist on my burn
Let Me Off Uptown -Krupa
Late Late Show -Basie
Harlem Air Shaft -Duke
Darktown Strutter's Bal -chick and ella
S'posin' -Maxine Sullivan
Teddy the Toad -Basie
You Took Advantage of Me -Lawrence Brown
A Train -Duke
Let Me See -Basie (this is a 280 bpm song. oops. i MEANT to play Golden Bullet but the CDs got switched around in my binder and I didn't notice. Golden Bullet is 225.)
Now You Has Jazz -Crosby and Armstrong
Doozy -Benny carter
Easy Does It -Big 18
Tain't No Good -Erskine Hawkins
Cottontail -Duke

a lot more people showed up, so it was easier to DJ this time.

[Utah_Nate]

My first set was almost three years ago now, but I do remember it was received with great enthusiasm. People in Utah had heard the same crap over and over again since about 1997, and I couldn't take it anymore. It got to the point where I could tell the person I was dancing with what the next song was because the dj's here just threw in a mic cd and went off to dance. I did a hostile take-over playing Basie, Ellington, David Booker from Denver, Cootie Williams, and tons of other stuff that they had NEVER heard before. They were all used to BBVD and Brian Setzer. After I took over the numbers at the dances increased substantially.

I do all of my djing for clubs for free, so when I am mistreated (like I was by the new president of one of the local swing clubs) I can bail out until they beg me to come back. It happened last semester and now they are having me almost every week because their numbers dropped from over 100 to about 20 or 30.