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name artist bpm length album year
Intro / Time’s Gettin’ Tougher Than Tough – Jimmy Witherspoon with Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Earl Hines, Vernon Alley, Mel Lewis – 134 – 3:35 – The ‘Spoon Concerts [...]
Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke DeJan
By dogpossum On 10th July, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In blues, cat blogging, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, ole timey
This is my favourite Preservation Hall Jazz Band album. It’s called Preservation Hall Hot 4
“with Duke DeJan” and I like it because it’s a smaller group, and while they’re definitely trucking along, it’s a calmer, quieter album. Their version of ‘Dinah’ is my most favourite, probably because I used to [...]
I’m looking forward to this new album by Solomon Douglas’ band. You can listen to it here.
This is me:
Al, Leon, woman-I-don’t-know in Spirit Moves
No, srsly, this is me. And this is how all blues dancing should be done. SO SRS BLUES DANCERS.
Blues in place
By dogpossum On 22nd June, 2012 · 2 Comments · In blues, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, wimminz
‘Bessie Smith at the Office’ – Anne Emond
(if you like this, you can buy a nice print: from Ann’s shop)
Last night I dropped in at the Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts gig at the Corridor in Newtown. The corridor is a skinny, two-story joint with a roof top [...]
want play music
By dogpossum On 5th June, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In blues, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, research
(John Lee Hooker, 1951, photo by Clemens Kalischer, found on Chasing Light)
[I'm DJing at the Jook Joint on Thursday. It won't be like this. Bedlam Bar, 2 Glebe Point Rd, social dancing starts 8.30.]
