Everything about the swinging music we love to DJ
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Yakov
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by Yakov » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:34 pm
i got a "classics" set of this guy.
i wasn't too impressed, DJ-wise.
excellent music but very lo-fi, not good dancing beats. too "arrangey," using ballad-sweet sax sounds even in the uptempo "hot" numbers.
twas this set
(and you KNOW i like the old shit -- look at some of my older posts -- just this set does not turn me on.)
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AlekseyKosygin
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by AlekseyKosygin » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:41 pm
He was a talented stride pianist, Get his 1935 Transcription Performances on Hep...live...is...better...
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Bob the Builder
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by Bob the Builder » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:42 pm
Yakov wrote:i got a "classics" set of this guy.
i wasn't too impressed, DJ-wise.
excellent music but very lo-fi, not good dancing beats. too "arrangey," using ballad-sweet sax sounds even in the uptempo "hot" numbers.
twas this set
(and you KNOW i like the old shit -- look at some of my older posts -- just this set does not turn me on.)
I don't have that exeact CD, but I do have an Australian Lable remastered CD that contains all the same songs. I've really enqoyed it. Not a CD I've DJed from to much, but a think Claude is very underated.
Claude use to back a lot of vocalists in the early 30's also (not on the above CD) and any I've come across hasn't done much for me. But his instrumentals are very clever.
Brian
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falty411
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by falty411 » Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:19 am
My favorite song done by Claude Hopkins is "Church Street Sobbin Blues" off of the Monkey Business album on Hep Cat.
-mikey faltesek
"Dancing is the union of the body with the rhythm and the sound of the music." Al Minns in 1984
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main_stem
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by main_stem » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:49 pm
falty411 wrote:My favorite song done by Claude Hopkins is "Church Street Sobbin Blues" off of the Monkey Business album on Hep Cat.
I love that song too, I have both the Hep Cat albumsand find them both enjoyable, but not what a lot of people would like to dance to.
"We called it music."
— Eddie Condon
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AlekseyKosygin
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by AlekseyKosygin » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:38 pm
I have read interviews with Frankie Manning where he has cited Claude Hopkins as one of the bands he loved to dance to when he first started...I wish more DJ's hit up his stuff...Singin' In The Rain is my favorite Claude Hopkins currently...it's on the Hep Transcriptions disc...
