DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #54: Summertime

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Angela Scappatura - A Little Bit Of Sugar

Sometimes I dig into the catalogues of different music services and search for interpretations of certain songs such as Summertime. A while ago I found a version by a Canadian jazz and blues artist who also is a multimedia journalist, writer and photographer: her name is Angela Scappatura. This song was released on her debut album in 2007 and it seems that she has not released another album in the meantime. Usually, Summertime is played in a slower tempo. Here we have a medium-tempo version with a “boom-cha” rhythm and the guitar as the main solo instrument. Angela’s soulful voice rounds [...]

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Samstag-Workshop 12.03.2011: Musikgeschichte Jazz/Swing

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Davenport Blues. Photo by Confetta

Anlässlich der Wochenend-Specials @ Downtownswing unterrichte ich am 12. März 2011 den Workshop Musikgeschichte Jazz/Swing Als Swing DJ Chrisbe habe ich mir in den letzten Jahren ein umfangreiches Wissen über die Musik der 20er bis 40er Jahre angeeignet. In diesem Workshop erhalten die TeilnehmerInnen einen Einblick in die verschiedenen Musikstile dieser Epoche, wie sie entstanden sind und welches deren Hauptvertreter waren. Mit Filmbeiträgen und vielen Hörbeispielen. Zeit: 13.30 – 15.00h Teil 1: Jazz, wie alles begann 15.30 – 17.00h Teil 2: Swing und seine Exponenten Level: alle Levels Kosten: Einzelner Teil: CHF 30 (25 mit Legi) Beide Teile: CHF 55 [...]

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #53: Comes Love

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Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns - Lucky Devil

The first song of the second year brings us once again to New Orleans. In the last few years many musicians and dancers moved to the city in the south of the US to live their passion and to help enforce traditional jazz music and dance to a thriving revival. Meschiya Lake “fell in love with and felt immediately embraced by the culturally rich and one of a kind city of New Orleans” while touring with a circus troupe. In 2007, she started singing with the Loose Marbles on the French Quarters Royal Street. Soon after they toured the US [...]

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And the Winners are…

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winner

This is going to be a short post. I asked you for your help to improve this website and give me thereto your feedback. And here are the winners of a CD “Live in Philadelphia” by Gordon Webster: Suse from Switzerland Dörte from Germany Giovanni from Italy Thank you guys for your feedback! You’ll shortly receive the CD. I hoped for some more comments, but based on the many Facebook Likes I suppose you’re pleased with the content so far . Alreet, thanks again to be part of my community. Keep on swinging and have a great Sunday! Photo credit: [...]

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One Year Anniversary! Help Me To Improve This Website

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One Year Anniversary Shuffle Projects

One Year Shuffle Projects – The Blog My first post “For Swing Lovers” (in German) went live on 1st March 2010. This was the starting point of a new project. At the beginning I thought I will publish most of the content in German and some in English – but it changed immediately, most of the posts are in English now. I enjoy having so many international visitors on the blog and I hope you consider my Swinglish as a style . Redesign I just accomplished one of my goals for this year (see “End-Of-Year-Review 2010“): last night I published [...]

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #52: On The Sunny Side Of The Street

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Coleman Hawkins 1944

Wow guys, it’s been almost one crazy year now when I started this series. I had no idea if I could keep up with… yes, I’m proud! And I’m pretty sure there will be at least one more year with an ongoing Song of the Week on Mondays ! So, for the last song of the first year, I have chosen the standard “On The Sunny Side of the Street“, recorded by Coleman Hawkins in 1944 – not to be confused with earlier versions by Hawkins, which all are shorter. Scott Yanow describes Hawkins as follows on allmusic.com: “Coleman Hawkins [...]

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Zürich Balboa Night am 4. März 2011

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Zürich Balboa Night | Shuffle Projects

ENGLISH version: find this event on Facebook März! Bald beginnt der Frühling, doch vorher tanzen wir den Winter weg: Zürich Balboa Night – der einzige monatliche Balboa Event in der Schweiz! Diesen Monat organisieren wir wie gewohnt einen Balboa Mini-Workshop. Die Registration ist ab sofort offen. Bitte meldet euch an, wenn ihr teilnehmen möchtet! Am liebsten gleich mit Partner/in, dies ist aber keine Pflicht, wir werden darum besorgt sein, die Klasse ausgeglichen zu gestalten. Wir werden immer wieder gefragt, ob es denn noch Platz im Mini-Workshop hat. Die Antwort ist simpel: Solange die Registration offen ist, hat es Platz! Host [...]

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DJ Chrisbe @ ewz.stattkino’11 Zürich (CH) 25.2.2011

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The Cotton Club Movie

The Sentimental Gangsters live in Concert, Show and Charleston taster class with Ursula Ledergerber & Roger Frey, and party with DJ Chrisbe Description by the organiser: “The Sentimental Gangsters: eine Band glitzernd, gefährlich und voller Passion, mal laut, mal leise, hier ein rasender Swing, dort eine melancholische Ballade. Dann das Tanzpaar: Charleston und Lindy Hop mitreissend interpretierend. Ein Charleston-Crash-Kurs vorab, die ausgelassene Charleston-Party danach und am Mischpult DJ Chrisbe. So verschmilzt alles zu einer unterhaltsamen Hommage an die Roaring Twenties. Passendes Outfit ausdrücklich erwünscht!” Date/Time Friday, February 25, 2011, starts at 18 h Location ewz Unterwerk Selnau Zürich Schedule 18.00 [...]

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