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Album Review: Glenn Crytzer’s Savoy Seven – Uptown Jump

Uptown Jump is composer, guitarist and bandleader Glenn Crytzer’s sixth release and I believe the first since his move to New York City.

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Classic Lindy Hop Music – The Hottest 100

User Shadowpoga on reddit asked about classic songs for DJing at a lindy hop dance. Whilst I gave my two cents in the comments, I didn’t actually post any song suggestions. That’s what this post is for. I went through my own collection and picked out the 100 best tracks from the 30s through to

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Jazz Music Shops for Swing DJs

One of the things I’ve been working on of late is a crowd sourced map of jazz music stores. When I travel I like to visit music stores and check out their selection – hopefully I can snap up something that’s out of print or heavily discounted. The map is for those swing DJs who

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DJing at Herrang

I’ve just left Herrang after volunteering for the crash down of camp. I’m now slowly meandering my way to Italy where I’ll take up residence in September. Whilst I was taking classes and partying I had the opportunity to be a volunteer DJ on a number of occasions. DJing at Herrang was an awesome experience

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DJing at Herrang – The Secret Library Blues Party 29/07/13

So I’ve been DJing quite a bit at Herrang. Last night I turned the library into a secret blues party after about 3am. I’ll get around to posting my other setlists and talking more generally about DJing here but I wanted to get this list up as quite a few people asked me about the

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Set List: Brisbane Lindy Exchange Sunday Evening

Here’s my set from Sunday afternoon at the Brisbane Lindy Exchange. I was following up the wonderful Tim Awesomesauce. After starting this set off with a food theme I took a detour through the Jitterbug Stroll and a little bit of ‘sixties’ stuff. A spontaneous jam circle formed on Jeep Jockey Jump which was strange

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Setlist: Brisbane Lindy Exchange Friday night uplate

Seq – Name – Artist – Album – BPM – Duration1 – Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five – Choo Choo Ch’boogie – 150 – 3:052 – Never Make Your Move Too Soon with Smack Dab in the Middle – Barbara Morrison – Live at the 9:20 Special

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Review: Where to buy music in Australia – Take 2

Though it’s only been 6 months since my original post there’s been quite a few changes on the music buying circuit so I thought I’d update and re-post it. I’ve had a lot of people asking me lately where to buy swing music from so I thought I’d put together a post outlining the best

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DJ Sets – Canberrang

This past weekend was Canberrang – Canberra’s Lindy Exchange and one of the jewels in the crown of the Australian Lindy Calendar. I had an awesome time over the weekend and managed to squeeze in two sets. I wanted to get them up now as a lot of folk were asking me questions about the

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DJ Set – Canberra Social

I was down in Canberra for work last week and managed to make it out to the social on Thursday night. I ended up DJing the first set – here’s what I played: Name – Artist – Album – Duration – Date – BPMBlues for Stephanie – George Gee and His Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra

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