anybody know of any music blogs that specialize in 1920s-30s music? primarily jazz manouche, new orleans jazz and vaudeville.

i'm "DJing" my sons birthday party in two weeks and i want to have sort of an old timey new orleans/gyspy/vaudeville swing vibe

i've already got a shitload of django

that'd be the cat's pajamas, wudn't it?

This one is great for kids parties, lots of muted trumpet, plus the songs are instantly recognizable from old cartoons all the way up to ren and stimpy.

this looks promising

grab'n

Nice links. The Sweet and Lowdown soundtrack is definitely great.

Kingfish--thanks for the blog link.

Here's a couple:









...and this entire blog: http://thebirthofjazz.blogspot.com/

bingo

All I have is a couple of CDs (not yet ripped), but that doesn't help you now, does it?

Might find some stuff here: http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/

And there's a whole network of oldies at this blog: http://rockabilly-ranch.blogspot.com/

Some old Louis Armstrong stuff is never a bad idea. Or some classic Duke Ellington stuff. For something different I'm a big fan of Spade Cooley as far as the whole Western Swing thing goes, especially his slower vocal numbers. Then, you can always get some really old blues stuff, Robert Johnson, of course or something a bit less widespread like Skip James.

excellent...i'll probably grab a bunch from the western swing blog. good find.

gonna mix about 3 hours of choice cuts for the party, and then i'll up it and post links in the mix forum

I hope you know, because of this thread I've been on a tear downloading stuff. Last night I was all about Jelly Roll Morton.

this is good shit to sit outside on the porch in the heat to

smokin a blunt, eatin some ree-yibs

Antique's Roadshow theme song was the first thing I thought of (I watch a lot of PBS)

just gave this a listen. my dads band pretty much has this whole repetoire