Comments on: How to start your collection of swinging jazz music http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/ about lindy hop and jazz music Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: alain’s dance blog » Blog Archive » Song playlist for the Battle of the Swing DJs 2007 http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-143 alain’s dance blog » Blog Archive » Song playlist for the Battle of the Swing DJs 2007 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:51:48 +0000 http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-143 [...] Looking to start DJing yourself? Read this post on how to start a swing music collection. [...] […] Looking to start DJing yourself? Read this post on how to start a swing music collection. […]

]]> By: Swifty http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-125 Swifty Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:36:24 +0000 http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-125 I very highly recommend the Basie, Hampton and Bechet Proper sets, though almost every Proper set is worth the cost. The price is obviously a steal for that much music but in my opinion the greatest treasure of the Proper sets is the awesome liner notes/book that comes with each. I very highly recommend the Basie, Hampton and Bechet Proper sets, though almost every Proper set is worth the cost. The price is obviously a steal for that much music but in my opinion the greatest treasure of the Proper sets is the awesome liner notes/book that comes with each.

]]> By: Alain Wong http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-13 Alain Wong Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:35:10 +0000 http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-13 Yeah, I’m so happy I discovered those Proper sets on eBay. LH’s version of Flying Home is definitely a classic jazz standard. As the story goes, Hampton was whistling the tune on an airplane in 1939, jittery about his first time flying. It was to help him take his mind off the nervousness. Benny Goodman asked him what the tune was called, and he said “We can call it ‘Flying Home,’ I guess.” And so the Benny Goodman Quartet played it that night, and the rest is — history. The 1942 recording has the famous Illinois Jacquet solo on tenor sax. For those buying a Lionel Hampton record for the first time, look for this recording. It’s amazing! I also really like the Charlie Barnet big band version off the Wicked Swing compilation. We use it often for the Big Apple. Yeah, I’m so happy I discovered those Proper sets on eBay.

LH’s version of Flying Home is definitely a classic jazz standard. As the story goes, Hampton was whistling the tune on an airplane in 1939, jittery about his first time flying. It was to help him take his mind off the nervousness. Benny Goodman asked him what the tune was called, and he said “We can call it ‘Flying Home,’ I guess.” And so the Benny Goodman Quartet played it that night, and the rest is — history.

The 1942 recording has the famous Illinois Jacquet solo on tenor sax. For those buying a Lionel Hampton record for the first time, look for this recording. It’s amazing!

I also really like the Charlie Barnet big band version off the Wicked Swing compilation. We use it often for the Big Apple.

]]> By: Angga http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-10 Angga Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:14:48 +0000 http://blog.alainwong.com/2007/07/30/how-to-start-your-collection-of-swinging-jazz-music/#comment-10 That ebay purchase is awesome. I think Lionel Hampton's version of Flying Home swings the most. That ebay purchase is awesome. I think Lionel Hampton’s version of Flying Home swings the most.

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