What are you playing? / What are you listening to?
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Talk about obsessive - I read a leter from some Jazz fans years ago and he said only Duke Ellingon records were played in his house! No one else....just EKE.GemZombie wrote:It's that I tend to obsess on things... if I moderated it all I'd never get tired of it, but since I listen to one thing over and over, I need a rest sometimes.
It's just my personality.
Will big bands ever come back?
I'm a Cootie fan, so I'd have to vote for the 40s stuff (Six Appeal, Charlie's Dream, Breakfast Feud, Benny's Bugle etc)Eyeball wrote: Do you have a preference for the earlier sides with Hampton or the later sides with Williams and Auld?
Although I don't have a lot of the earlier trio/quartet/sextet material yet.
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Although I also love the Benny/CC/Hamp sextet, the BG/CC/Cootie/Georgie sides are the best. 4 of my favorite soloists all in the same band. Plus those arrangements and riffs are so awesome - definitely my prime inspiration.
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My boys and I have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating!
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My boys and I have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating!
--Count Basie
www.campusfive.com
www.myspace.com/campusfive
www.swingguitar.blogspot.com
By "earlier" - in this case, i just meant the Christian sides from 1939 and early 40 before Williams and Auld come on. The 30s sides with the other small groups are another world.....and the small sextet BG had right after the GA/CW/CC sessions pale in comparison, even though they are excellent Jazz.trev wrote:I'm a Cootie fan, so I'd have to vote for the 40s stuff (Six Appeal, Charlie's Dream, Breakfast Feud, Benny's Bugle etc)Eyeball wrote: Do you have a preference for the earlier sides with Hampton or the later sides with Williams and Auld?
Although I don't have a lot of the earlier trio/quartet/sextet material yet.
Cootie Williams only had a one year contract with BG, but he turned out a lot of great stuff with the big band, too. "Fiesta In Blue" is one of many great sides.
And I never thought about it until know, but I wonder why Georgie Auld left? I think he might have gone back to Shaw. I know he had his own band, but hat was not until the mid 40s, IIRC.
Will big bands ever come back?
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I consider a musical style (ala Swing) to be a thing. So if you are looking for a band or a song that I listened to too much, that's not it. I get my fill of Swing right now DJing. Probably after the holidays I'll get into it more. I also find that these cycles also ebb and flow with dancing. Something I'm only doing half as much as I did when I was in California.Eyeball wrote:Interesting.GemZombie wrote:It's that I tend to obsess on things... if I moderated it all I'd never get tired of it, but since I listen to one thing over and over, I need a rest sometimes.
It's just my personality.
What Swing thing do you listen to over and over? I have a few songs that when I play them, they get played several times in a row. Not sure if I wind up 'hooked' on something and play it every day. Great to be that enthusiastic!
I also tend to get obsessed by certain tracks - meaning that I play them over and over, hundreds of times. In the last year or so, it has happened with
Artie Shaw - Summit Ridge Drive
Andy Kirk - Froggy Bottom
Count Basie - Honeysuckle Rose
Froggy Bottom is very lo-fi (at least my Chronogical Classics version is) but I DJ it sometimes anyway.
Artie Shaw - Summit Ridge Drive
Andy Kirk - Froggy Bottom
Count Basie - Honeysuckle Rose
Froggy Bottom is very lo-fi (at least my Chronogical Classics version is) but I DJ it sometimes anyway.
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Cootie plays amazing stuff on the tune "Benny Rides Again" which I think is one of the most interesting BG big band records. It starts off all crazy with growling trumpets in a minor key, and then it mellows out with a beautiful smooth sax section and BG solo, and then back to the roaring minor brass at the end. Just great.
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