Photos: Red Nichols (left), Bob Howard (right)

At The Clambake Carnival, Cab Calloway, 186 bpm
Nice Work If You Can Get It, Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra with Billie Holiday, 1937, 165 bpm
You’ve Got To Give Me Some, Clarence Williams, 185 bpm
Ballin’ The Jack, Red Nichols, 131 bpm
Dark Rapture, Count Basie with Helen Humes, 1938, 161 bpm
I’ll Always Be In Love With You, Horace Henderson & His Orchestra, 1940, 175 bpm
Getting Some Fun Out Of Life, Billie Holiday, 1937, 113 bpm
I’m Living In A Great Big Way, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, 1935, 168 bpm
Exactly Like You, Don Redman & His Orchestra, 1937, 154 bpm
I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby, Louis Armstrong, 1955, 163 bpm
Swingmatism, Jay McShann & His Orchestra, 1941, 178 bpm
Cross Patch, Fats Waller, 139 bpm
Spring Cleaning, Bob Howard, 171 bpm
Roses of Picardy, Tchavolo Schmitt, 2005, 124 bpm
The Good Drag (Gone Wid de Goon), Sam Price & His Texas Blusicians, 139 bpm
Little Jazz, Roy Eldridge, 1945, 145 bpm
Fan It, Red Nichols, 181 bpm
Shorty’s Got To Go, Lucky Millinder, 1946, 146 bpm
Coleslaw, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 1949, 136 bpm
G-Men, Cootie Williams & His Orchestra, 1941, 162 bpm
Ridin’ and Jivin’, Earl Hines, 1939, 150 bpm
Blue Drag, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grapelli, 114 bpm

A short set I played at a cozy little Buenos Aires blues dance last week…

Too Tight Blues, The New Orleans Wanderers, 1926 (106bpm)
Mobile Blues, Duke Ellington, 1938 (80bpm)
Feeling Good, Nina Simone (78bpm)
Blues in the Dark, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, 1938 (86bpm)
Blue Drag, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grapelli (114bpm)
I Heard the Marchin’ of the Drum, C.W. Stoneking, 2008 (104bpm)
Love Where Did You Go, Dayna Kurtz, 2004 (54bpm)
Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, Ernestine Anderson (71bpm)
Blues in C Sharp Minor, Roy Eldridge, 1936 (99bpm)
How Long Blues, Wingy Manone, 1939 (93bpm)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Big Maybelle, 1968 (116bpm)
Roll On Katy, Jay McShann with Jimmy Witherspoon, 1946 (93bpm)
My Daddy Rocks Me, Trixie Smith (104bpm)
My Man Jumped Salty On Me, Mezz Mezzerow, 1936 (112bpm)
Sister Kate, Firehouse Five Plus Two, 2000 (99bpm)

“My Man Jumped Salty On Me”, the Mezz tune, has my all-time favourite blues lyric in it:

I’m gonna get me a razor, and a gun
Cut him if he stands still and shoot him if he runs
‘Cause that man’s done jumped salty on me

Oooh, bitter…

I played a nice gentle set for one of the late-nights at Southern Belle Swing Bash last weekend, here’s the set list as requested!

Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho – Sidney Bechet, 1949 (178 bpm)
No More Love – Buddy Johnson, 1951 (125 bpm)
Savoy – Lucky Millinder, 1942 (167 bpm)
At The Clambake Carnival - Cab Calloway (186 bpm)
Ballin’ The Jack – Red Nichols (131 bpm)
Little Jazz – Roy Eldridge, 1945 (145 bpm)
Yacht Club Swing - Fats Waller, 1938 (173 bpm)
Six Appeal (My Daddy Rocks Me) – Benny Goodman Sextet, 1940 (146 bpm)
Black Eyes – Wingy Manone (165 bpm)
Your Feets Too Big – Fats Waller, 1939 (121 bpm)
Good Queen Bess – Duke Ellington, 1940 (160 bpm)
Stomping at the Renny - Edgar Hayes, 1937 (177 bpm)
East St Louis Toodle-oo - Michael McQuaid’s Red Hot Rhythmakers (151 bpm)
A High Hat, a Piccolo and a Cane – Tempo King (187 bpm)
Cherry - Eddie Condon & His Town Hall Jazz Band, 1944 (168 bpm)
Twenty-Four Robbers - Jimmie Lunceford, 1941 (141 bpm)
Fan It – Red Nichols (181 bpm)
I Want The Waiter (With The Water) - Jimmie Lunceford, 1939 (150 bpm)
My Man Stands Out – Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends (160 bpm)
Let’s Get Happy Together - Lil Hardin Armstrong, 1938 (176 bpm)
Shower (Bicycle Bounce) – Erskine Hawkins, 1944 (180 bpm)
Ridin’ and Jivin’ – Earl Hines, 1939 (150 bpm)
I’m Living in a Great Big Way – Benny Goodman, 1935 (168 bpm)
A Mellow Bit of Rhythm – Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joy, 1937 (159 bpm)
Four or Five Times – Jimmie Noone, 1937 (172 bpm)

I DJ’d a short set at the Grenoble Lindy Exchange in Grenoble, France last weekend, so I played a handful of my current favourite tunes to swingout to…

Swingin’ On That Famous Door – Roy Eldridge, 1935 (199bpm)
Cherry – Eddie Condon & His Tow Hall Jazz Band, 1944 (168bpm)
A High Hat, a Piccolo and a Cane - Tempo King & His Kings of Tempo (187bpm)
If I Were You – Hot Lips Page, 1938 (225bpm)
Bring It On Home to Grandma – Jimmie Noone, 1930 (164bpm)
Fan It – Red Nichols (181bpm)
Long About Midnight - Willie Bryant & His Orchestra (200bpm)
Let’s Get Happy Together - Lil Hardin Armstrong, 1938 (176bpm)
I Must Have It – Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, 2001 (137bpm)
Midriff – Duke Ellington, 1945 (170bpm)
It Ain’t Right – Stuff Smith, 1936 (192bpm)
Wild Man Blues - Johnny Dodds & His Chicago Boys, 1938 (173bpm)
Midnight In A Madhouse (Midnight in Harlem) – Chick Webb, 1937 (206bpm)
Laughing at Life - Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra, 1937 (153bpm)
From Monday On – Ella Logan & The Spirits of Rhythm, 1941 (198bpm)
Blackstick - Noble Sissle, 1938 (189bpm)