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Hello! As I promised here's latest. I is a swing tune set in a ballroom back in the 40's when people actually went to dance and not to be piled up in a place to see "a concert". https://www.reverbnation.com/cubanpete7/song/31630946-swing-a-la-callowayGet your handkerchiefs ready to wipe the sweat! Style is HOTSHOW.STY (Hot Show MIDI Big Band Jazz) SoloistCustom Synth is Synth/Plugin Loaded Style MIDI Instruments are : Acoustic String Bass (33), Acoustic Piano (1), MIDI SuperTracks in style: ~~1919:Bass, Acoustic, Jazz Sw 190 MIDI SuperTracks in style: ~~2341:Piano, Rhythm JazzFastKenny Sw 190 RealTracks in song: 2630:Horn Section, Background JazzSwing2PartJack Sw 140 RealTracks in song: 2593:Horn Section, Background CroonerBigBand9-Part Sw 110 RealTracks in song: ~1619:Clarinet, Soloist DixielandFast Sw 165 RealDrums [in Song:JazzSwingDannySticks: a: Ride, HiHatb: Ride, Snare Mike B.
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Very authentic sound - and an excellent all round production.
Peter
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cubanpete,
Really nice work on this—excellent production work. Love how you generate that “live performance” feel to this one. Very impressive.
Best regards,
Deej
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Cheers
rayc
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Oh, man, That's swinging great, and I see what you mean about the sweat. I can also see Cab jumping around in a zoot suit. Great production, Mike.
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'cubanpete'... Norman Granz, the famous 'jazz impressario' who created Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1944, could be cited as one figure in the world of music (along with the advent of long-playing records at the time), who changed the way audiences experienced jazz music performances. The following article that was published by the New York Times in 2001 on the occasion of his death illuminates his controversial thinking on the matter: "Mr. Granz also represented stars like Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and championed their kind of music even though when he began, some critics attacked his musicians and their audiences as ''lower-class swing enthusiasts.'' In all his Jazz at the Philharmonic presentations Mr. Granz emphasized that he wanted no dancing or unruly behavior when the music was played. He wanted people to listen, just as they might listen to Bach or Brahms."Nonetheless, to his significant credit, he fought REALLY fiercely against the 'Jim Crow' mentality of that time by insisting that African-American musicians and vocalists "be treated with the same respect as Leonard Bernstein or (Jascha) Heifetz because they were just as good," he said, "both as men and musicians." Your composition, Swing a la Calloway, is such an accurately reproduced and swingin' recreation of ballroom swing arrangements of Granz's era that if I didn't know it was you who put it all together, it would be easy for me assume that the 'chart' had been cooked up by any number of the most famous composer/arrangers working back then. It's a truly impressive piece of high-energy jazz music that sounds as though it was recorded before a 'live' audience. 'cubanpete', you da' man, man  !!! Most sincerely, LOREN
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Once more, thanks to all of you for the time to listen and the nice comments and reviews. So you all know, I wasn't too happy with the piano solo, so I changed it. The original link takes you to the new take.
Loren, you're an educator along with most of the participants in this forum when it comes to write your reviews every time you do that for all the ones you listen to.
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Mike B.
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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
Wow.
We've watched many a video of the swing era including Cab, of course,
and you did a wonderful job of capturing the era. It is so easy to
envision the band and the crowd dancing.
Excellent!!!!
The live groove is perfect and the intro made us immediately feel that
it was a period piece.
J&B
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Really nicely done - loved the swinging groove on this. A great throwback tune, and really captures the era that inspired it. Top notch work on the production too.
Thanks for sharing!
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Deryk
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Thanks J&B and Deryk for the nice comments. This is a good time to create some music since we have to be cooked up in the house around here. Although of course there's always the proverbial "honey do's" in this situations.
Thank to all.
Mike B.
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Nice sound! You did an especially good job capturing the sound of a live band in the room.
Stay well and don't go stir crazy!
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Nice production. It really was authentic swing. Good work. Way to go.
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In addition to country and western and rock, I was introduced to this kind of music thanks to my parents. Amazing job. Sounds like one of those old 33 1/3 LPs!!
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Great work! I really enjoyed this with the crowd sound fx added.
Thanks for sharing.
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When this started I thought of Gene Krupa. Once you go into it I said yep Cab, but when the clarinet solo started I thought of Benny Goodman. You really have me confused!
Excellent work Mike. I really liked that live feel!
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Thanks David, JP, James and Scott for visiting. Always glad that you all liked it.
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Hey Mike - This is a top notch production, and all around classy. I don't know the songs of that era very well, only from the movies, but it fits like a glove. Really dig that swing in there, and it really does have that "live" band sound to it. Great work and excellent production.
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