Weirdo Music is the first non-blog to be featured here. You may be wondering why the featured blog isn't a blog at all. The reason I chose to feature Weirdo Music is because it's owner does a great deal to promote and share music that would remain largely unnoticed were it not for his efforts. The site is operated by Marco Kalnenek from Heerlen, the Netherlands.
Weirdo Music is a multi-purpose site, delivering news, and reviews. One of my favorite areas of the site is the downloads section, where Marco features a revolving collection of music blogs which focus on rare and unusual music.
In addition to Weirdo Music, Marco has also been operating his own net-label, WM Recordings, since 2004. The WM catalog features a rather eclectic selection of independent artists, offering everything from Pop to Afrobeat. The majority of the WM Recordings catalog can be downloaded for free, but there are also a few commercial releases available at a generous price. Marco is also an accomplished independent musician in his own right, having self-released several full length albums and EPs. You can read more about his musical projects here.
Morgen de Nederlandse versie: 1002 .. en wat nu. This is the first blog in a new range of Keep Swinging blogs. Things will be changed ........... Learn all about it in this blog titled: 1001: .... and more. Hans Koert Yesterday I was surprised by a delicious cake with the Jazz Door Een Zeeuwse Bril logo to celebrate the 1000th blog. This logo was used during the last 150 blogs. Thanks for that - a geat surprise served up by some beloved relatives.
The lay-out of the blog has changed, as you see since the 1000th blog yesterday and next week more changes will be made. I hope you like it. When I created the Keep Swinging web log I wanted a place to express my fasination for jazz and jazz related music. In fact I was irritated by the fact that it seemed as if jazz music was complete disappearing from daily life: record shops reduced its number of jazz records from their selves ( or hid the jazz records between the "popular"(!) music ), radio programs were cancelled and TV-producers only showed some small fragments from their archives, feared that mankind would zap to another channel if you let the saxophone player finish his solo ....... I learned that the knowledge about jazz music by Joe The Plumber was limited to almost nothing - just some names like Louis Armstrong or the Dutch Swing College Band and I wondered how (young) people, who loved to hear some jazz music, could find information. Jazz is more then some bits & bytes downloaded from the internet - it is music, emotion that is created on the very moment.
But few people know, that often good music is made just around the corner - not only in this part of the world, but also in your place or at surprising locations, if you keep your eyes and ears open ..... I wanted to point the readers to these great events I loved to visit, even if they were on the other side of the world and joining it an impracticability. I wanted to point others to my projects, but also to great finds, records that surprised me or recollection of meetings and concerts. So I received numerous commends on my blogs about the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra, I had heard this band twice around the year 1980 in Breda, in the south of The Netherlands, at the Oude Stijl Jazz Festival( = Traditional Jazz Festival). Its version of Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue brings me cold shivers ran down my spine. A lot of people who searched on the internet for music of that band found the blog and asked me where to find CDs of that band, still active at the Charles Bridge in Prague (Czech Republic). It is a pity that this band hasn't got any website or sales point where one can obtain a copy of their albums. About 30 percent of the visitors of the Keep Swinging blogare from the Netherlands, 25 % from the United States and 20 % are hits from European countries, like Belgium, Germany, France and England. A half year after the founding of the blog, some Dutch and Flemish readers wondered why the blogs were in English only; since that day I posted most contribution in both Dutch ( and Flemish of course) and English. Some people might think I'm a retired or unemployed man... well that's wrong. I do have a regular job which keeps me busy for four days a week. Making a daily blog means early to bed, and, lucky for the blog, I'm an early bird ..... I learned that two dozen regular visitors open the blog each day ( Thanks folks) - others two or three times a week, or after receiving the weekly news letter to be sent each Monday. Other were visitors by chance or surfers on the web. I decided to bring the daily frequency of the Keep Swinging blogs down to a weekly scedule; I hope the regular readers will accept this.The last 150 blogs were labeled as Jazz Door Een Zeeuwse Bril, which means something like Jazz As Seen By a Zeeland inhabitant. Zeeland is the region of the southwest part of The Netherlands. This motto suggests that I have a sober-minded view on jazz - no hypes for me - not The Twenty Bests ... - I wanted to promote the jazz in our region using this motto, announcing concerts and making reviews of concerts, but few reactions, personal or by mail, made me conclude that the blogs actually didn't reach the right persons, the jazz fans and the clubs! The musicians, on the other hand, liked these reviews, so I decided to make now and then reviews of concerts. The list of concerts in the menu will be continued until the end of the year. Tomorrow - you'll find the Dutch translation of this blog and after that ...... no new daily blog: for the first time in 2 years and 10 month no blog to make. It gives me some more time to make contributions for other blogs like the Choro-music blog, in which Joergen made a contribution titled Celebration, refering to the 1000th blog - the Hit of the Week blog- the Flexible Records Projectand the Oscar Aleman weblog. Thanks Joergen for your support during my holidays, by posting your always interesting contributions and I hope I can count on that in future too. The first weekly blog will be later this week on Thurday evening the 27th of November 2008 and its translation on the next day ( Friday the 28th of November 2008). Several guest contributors offered some great articles to post, so I hope you will stay a regular visitor of the Keep Swinging blog.
Hans Koert
Some additional info about the band mentioned:
Selected Discography: Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest (EP) (ca 1976) Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest Vedouci Pavel Klikar (1978) Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest - Live in het Turfschip in Breda (1978) Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest - Stara natoc gramofon ( 1982) Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra - Jazz & Hot Dance Music 1923-31 (1983) Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest - Sam s devceten v desti (1989) Originální Prazsky Synkopicky Orchest - Hello Baby ( 1994) Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra - Walking & Swinging (1997) Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra - Goin' Crazy with the Blues (2002) Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra - Sweet Like This (2005)
KEEPSWINGING.BLOGSPOT.COM 1000 x To the latest blogNaar de laatste blog ENGLISH:( Naar de Nederlands-Vlaamse vertaling.) 1000 Welcome on my web log. I will use it to share my admiration for jazz music, for my record collection and other jazz projects. I hope to meet other people who have the same passion. Keep swinging Hans
This was the text of the very first blog, titledKeep Swingingpublished the 18th of February 2006, in fact the introduction for the first real contribution:Fats and more ......
FATS AND MORE ......... - a reprise
That's me, somewhere in the 1960s, playing the piano - trying to imitate the boogie woogie masters (like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis) or playing stride ( like Fats Waller, James P. or Eubie Blake). The old masters would have smiled. Fats Waller was my first idol. Together with Hans van der Veer I collected all RCA Black & White""The Complete Fats Waller Recordings". We started to make a Fats Waller discography, unknown that Laurie Wright should publish his ""Fats" in Fact"in 1992. Thanks to the fact that Hans van der Veer worked at Philips in Eindhoven ( The Netherlands) he could buy cheap reel-to-reel tapes for my Akai taperecorder, and due to the fact he earned some money he could buy most of the Black & Whites and tape it for me. So my first "complete" collection was the Fats Waller musical heritage.
Nice detail: Some years ago I found the two RCA Fats Waller Memorial LP sets at a reasonable price at a record fair and bought both boxes. In the 1970s these boxes were inaccesible for me - now I have it !! (although I have the music in the boxes already on cassettes and CDs).
Record collectors are weird !!
Last week the most favorite five Keep Swinging blog, out of the 999 previous released, were posted: Music On The Antarctic - Josephine Baker in Ghent: an Unexpected Meeting - They Lovely Nicknamed Me Jazz Nerd - Sweet Hollywaiians - Hula Girland The Midgets an the Bombers. The last one was posted by Ian R. from Canada, who will receive theFrank Rosolino CDsoon. Joergen Larsen, who supported me during these two years and ten months while I had some well-deserved holidays by posting his own contributions, sent me his favorite blog about Eva Taylor and the Peruna Jazzmen. I love to share with you a from a small documentary of Eva Taylor's visits to Denmark during the 1970s just before she passed away and her performances with the Peruna Jazzmen: the 1974 concert by Eva Taylor with the Peruna Jazzmen in Copenhagen, Denmark - jazz pur sang. I love to share with you this small filmed fragment of one of the concerts: Sugar Blues.
Today the 1000th blog has been published labeled as Keep Swinging 1000 times: a milestone. I hope you have enjoyed the previous 999 as much as I did making it. Thanks Jo for supporting me - I hope you'll do this too for the next 999 !! Tomorrow I'll post here my new plans for the blogs to come.
Gefeliciteerd met deze mijlpaal. Uniek om de jazzgeschiedenis - groeten Cees (Cees M. ) / Alle succes, hart. groeten en....oprechte felicitaties en complimenten voor je belangrijke werk ! (Georg L.) / Hans! Congratulations!!! We celebrate along with you! What you do for jazz is a wonderful thing, we join hands with you and celebrate your success! - Our very best! - The Jazz Network!! :-) ( JaiJai J.) / Gefeliciteerd! ( Jan T.) / your keepswinging-blog will be first thing in the morning, no dice! (Jo L) / Hi Hans, Congratulations on reaching your 1000th edition of Keep Swinging. Best wishes and "Keep Swinging," (Mikayla) / Keep up the good work! (Mike W.) / Beste vrienden gelukwensen met nummer 1000 Ik hoop dat je nog lang doorgaat met jullie prachtig werk "Bedankt" - Groetjes Stan M.
Welcome on my web log. I will use it to share my admiration for jazz music, for my record collection and other jazz projects. I hope to meet other people who have the same passion. Keep swinging Hans Dit waren de eerste woorden op de allereerste blog van 18 februari 2006, getiteld Keep Swinging. In feite was het de inleiding voor de eerste bijdrage, getiteld:Fats and more ...... FATS AND MORE .... - op herhaling That's me, somewhere in the 1960s, playing the piano - trying to imitate the boogie woogie masters (like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis) or playing stride ( like Fats Waller, James P. or Eubie Blake). The old masters would have smiled. Fats Waller was my first idol. Together with Hans van der Veer I collected all RCA Black & White""The Complete Fats Waller Recordings". We started to make a Fats Waller discography, unknown that Laurie Wright should publish his ""Fats" in Fact"in 1992. Thanks to the fact that Hans van der Veer worked at Philips in Eindhoven ( The Netherlands) he could buy cheap reel-to-reel tapes for my Akai taperecorder, and due to the fact he earned some money he could buy most of the Black & Whites and tape it for me. So my first "complete" collection was the Fats Waller musical heritage. Nice detail: Some years ago I found the two RCA Fats Waller Memorial LP sets at a reasonable price at a record fair and bought both boxes. In the 1970s these boxes were inaccesible for me - now I have it !! (although I have the music in the boxes already on cassettes and CDs).
De afgelopen week plaatste ik de vijf meest populaire blogs, door jullie aangedragen:Muziek op de ZuidpoolJosephine Baker in Gent; een onverwachte ontmoeting- Ze noemden me, liefkozend, een jazznerd- Sweet Hollywaiians - Hula Girlen De Dwergjes en de Bommengooiers.Deze laatste bijdrage werd aangebracht door Ian R. uit Canada, die de Frank Rosolino CDspoedig zal ontvangen. Joergen Larsen, die me de afgelopen twee jaar en tien maanden bijstond, door, als ik een welverdiene vakantie vierde, elke dag een bijdrage plaatste, zond me voor deze 1000ste blog zijn Jazzcat's Blogbuster n.a.v. een eerdere bijdrage over Eva Taylor en de Peruna Jazzmen( in het Engels). Ik vond een korte documentaire met een optreden van Eva Taylor met de Peruna Jazzmen in Kopenhagen in 1994 - pure jazz. Ik wil dan ook een kort filmfragment plaatsen dat deze gebeurtenis, zij het in een matige beeldkwaliteit, laat zien. Geniet van Mandy Make Sugar Blues.
Vandaag dan de 1000ste blog, getiteld Keep Swinging 1000 times: a milestone. Ik hoop dat je aan de 999 voorafgaande blogs net zoveel plezier beleefd hebt als ik aan het maken ervan. Bedankt Jo voor het op de winkel passen als ik er even niet was. Morgen vind je hier de plannen voor het vervolg van deze blog ......................
Gefeliciteerd met deze mijlpaal. Uniek om de jazzgeschiedenis - groeten Cees (Cees M. )Alle succes, hart. groeten en....oprechte felicitaties en complimenten voor je belangrijke werk ! (Georg L.) / Hans! Congratulations!!! We celebrate along with you! What you do for jazz is a wonderful thing, we join hands with you and celebrate your success! - Our very best! - The Jazz Network!! :-) ( JaiJai J.) / Gefeliciteerd! ( Jan T. ) / Your keepswinging-blog will be first thing in the morning, no dice! (Jo L.) / Hi Hans, Congratulations on reaching your 1000th edition of Keep Swinging. Best wishes and "Keep Swinging," (Mikayla) / Keep up the good work! ( Mike W. ) / Beste vrienden gelukwensen met nummer 1000 Ik hoop dat je nog lang doorgaat met jullie prachtig werk "Bedankt" - Groetjes Stan M.
