Music

If you are just looking for a song to practice to, you can look these songs up on YouTube. Some of the Case Swing Club’s favorite tracks are:

  • For Blues – Natural Blues by Moby, Gravity by John Mayer, Fire by Babyface, Feeling Good by Michael Buble
  • For East Coat & Lindy Hop – Bei Mir Bist Du Schon by The Andrews Sisters, Are You Hep To The Jive? by Cab Calloway, Love Me Or Leave Me by Les Brown
  • For Charleston – Charleston by Django Reinhardt
  • For Balboa – Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho by Sidney Bechet (Oddly, I've never done bal to this!), Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt

If you’re looking to start your own music collection, props. The club desperately needs you and would like to shake your hand. Read on for tips from our own dance and radio DJ, Brian Tietz…

Artists by Category:


Italics - A Good Place to Start a Collection

Orange – Lots of songs great for Balboa

Old School (pre 1950s, * active long enough to have new school stuff):

Big Bands and Leaders:

Count Basie*

Charlie Barnet

Les Brown

Willie Bryant

Cab Calloway

Bob Crosby

Casa Loma Orchestra (lead by Glen Gray)

Jimmy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey

Duke Ellington*

Benny Goodman

Lionel Hampton*

Erskine Hawkins

Fletcher Henderson

Gene Krupa

Jimmie Lunceford

Wingy Manone

Jay McShann*

Glenn Miller

Lucky Millinder*

Benny Moten

Teddy Powell

Artie Shaw

Jack Teagarden

Chick Webb


Small Group Artists/Soloists (ranges from 20’s Charleston to Gypsy Jazz):


Oscar Aleman

Louis Armstrong

Sidney Bechet

Charlie Christian

Alix Combille

Wild Bill Davison

Roy Eldridge

Slim Gaillard

Stephane Grappelli

Coleman Hawkins

Mezz Mezzrow

Jimmie Noone

King Oliver

Django Reinhardt

Slam Stewart

Fats Waller


Vocalists:


Nat King Cole*

Ella Fitzgerald

Billie Holiday


New School Swing (1950s – Swing Revival):


Modern Swing (includes Gypsy Jazz):


Count Basie

Barney Bigard

Benny Carter

Duke Ellington

Stephane Grapelli

Lionel Hampton

Earl Hines

Johnny Hodges

Illinois Jacquet

Jay McShann

Oscar Peterson

Billy Strayhorn

Rex Stewart

Clark Terry


Jump Blues:


Arnett Cobb

Wynonie Harris

Louis Jordan

Louis Prima


Soul/Soul Jazz:


Ray Charles

Golden Gate Quartet

Gene Harris

Lou Rawls

Nina Simone

Booker T and the MGs


Vocalists:


Fred Astaire

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

Peggy Lee

Frank Sinatra

Dinah Washington


Contemporary Swing (Swing Revival through today):


Vintage Swing Style (may also do Bop):


Jim Beebe’s Chicago Jazz

The Boilermaker Jazz Band

Bourbon Street Jazz

James Dapogny’s Chicago Jazz Band

Solomon Douglas

Gene’s Jazz Hot (Cleveland)

Duke Heitger and his Swing Band

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Night Owls (Cleveland)

The Marsalis Family (Wynton, Branford, Ellis, etc)

Ken Peplowski

Shout Sister Shout

Jonathan Stout

Swing Masters

Kat Walker


Neoswing/Jump Blues Style:


Alien Fashon Show

Blue Lunch (Cleveland)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (some recent albums may fall under vintage swing)

Cherry Poppin Daddies

Hepcat Revival (Cleveland)

Hot Head Swing Band

Madison Crawl (Cleveland)

The Rhythm Rockets

Royal Crown Revue

Brian Setzer

Squirrel Nut Zippers


Lounge Jazz Style:


Michal Buble

Ann Hampton Callaway

Eva Cassidy

Norah Jones

Stacey Kent

Mary Lowe

Indigo Swing

Diana Krall

New York Voices


Gypsy Jazz:


Hot Club:

  • Of Detroit

  • Of San Francisco

  • De Norvege

  • Red Rock

John Jorgenson

Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio

Robin Nolan Trio

Ishmael Reinhardt

Swing Caravan

Frank Vignola


Movie Soundtracks:


Kansas City

Swing Kids