SwingDJs

This is a question for more of the music fans.

I'm in the process of preparing a show on John Kirby. I have 2 of the Classics Releases: "Classics" series:# 750 = 1938-1939 and # 792 = 1941-1943

These are both excellent samplings of the classic Kirby groups.

I'm curious if you have any other CDs you might recommend.

Also does anyone find this music suitable for swing dancing?

the cheap-o past perfect series has a john kirby disc. shiny cover!

John Kirby
Rehearsin' For a Nervous Breakdown
1- Sweet Georgia Bown
2- Blues Petite
3- It Feels Good
4- Front and Center
5- Andiology
6- Coquette
7- Zooming at the Zombie
8- Opus 5
9- Blue Skies
10- Jumpin' in the Pump Room
11- 20th Century Closet
12- Royual Garden Blues
13- Can't We Be Friends
14- Beethoven Riffs On
15- Rehearsin' For a Nervous Breakdown
16- Undecided

redcorded in NYC 1938 - 1940

w/ Charlie Shavers (tp), Buster Bailey (cl), Russell Procope (as), Billy Kyle (p), John Kirby (b) & O'Neil Spencer (d)

TOTAL RUN TIME: 44:35
source: http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticcom ... mania.html
i haven't yet "field tested" the disc, but there does seem to be some danceable material.
-yakov

John Kirby is one of my absolute favorites. And YES, this most certainly is swing dance music. I play at least one of Kirby's tunes nearly every time I DJ. My current (burned) DJ disks include the following Kirby songs ripped from the indicated CDs:

A History of Jazz Drumming Proper [Disc 2]
Front And Center

Complete Columbia & RCA [Disc 1]
Anitra's Dance
Blue Skies
I May Be Wrong
It Feels So Good
Jumpin' In The Pump Room
Royal Garden Blues
Sweet Georgia Brown
The Turf

Transcriptions Vol. 1
Close Shave
Move Over

Transcriptions Vol. 2
Down On The Riminent
Fifi's Rhapsody
See What You Did
Shoo Shoo Baby
The Birth Of The Blues

Transcriptions Vol. 3
At The Crossroads
Boogie Woogie
Dengozo
Kansas City Caboose

The Biggest Little Band In The Land
9:20 Special
Effervescent Blues
Opus Five
Undecided

Where the same song has been released on multiple CDs, the selected CD is the cleanest copy/remastering.

Great thread!

One of the most ORIGINAL swing bands ever and one of my very favorites...

You are pretty much set with:

CLASSICS 1938-1939

CLASSICS 1939-1941

My fave songs (and yes they are also great for dancing):

It Feels So Good
Royal Garden Blues
Opus 5
Blue Skies
Coquette
Zooming At The Zombie
Beethoven Riffs On
Cuttin’ The Campus

I'll have to put him on my buy list - I picked up a compilation in DC with a track by John Kirby and Falty also recommended him highly.