Swing and Jazz MP3s at Amazon.com

Amazon.com doesn't just sell cds they also sell music in the form of mp3s. This is great for people like me and you because it enables you to pick the just the danceable songs of an album. Granted, the other songs on an album may be great to listen to, but if you're on a budget you just want the ones that you can dance to.

Amazon.com has also released a new widget for presenting mp3s, see above. I think this will enable me to give you more tips about swing and jazz song. I can add any song I like to the playlist, so hopefully I'll be posting some playlists later on.

For now, to test this feature, I present the album Kick It by Lannie Garrett that I wrote about in connection to the March Episode of Hey Mister Jesse. The whole album has great danceable songs.

Unfortunatly, right now only people in USA can buy mp3s this way. I hope they'll add support for international customers as well.

What do you think of this mp3 widget from Amazon.com? Tell me.

Hey Mr Jesse: March 2008

On the first Monday of each month I'm very much like a child on a roadtrip: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" but in my case it's not an amusement park that I'm waiting for, but close: it's the podcast Hey Mr Jesse.

This month I saw that the show was announced and tried the links on the Hey Mr Jesse webpage, but I couldn't get it to work so I reported it to Jesse Miner & Manu Smith. One minute later a email came back from Manu:

My goodness! You are too fast my friend. We are still uploading the file. :-)

Well, 20 minutes later I had downloaded the March edition of Hey Mr Jesse. I'm pretty sure I'm the first listener this time.

Download March edition of Hey Mr Jesse (~50MB, MP3).

If you like to know what's in podcast, check out the show notes for Hey Mr Jesse March 2008. You can't possible comment on everything on the show but here are some my comments about the show.



The first thing you notice is that Manu has a cold and he sounds just like Dan Fitzgerald in The Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band. In the January podcast Manu complained that Dan has this rough voice and stills sounds great while he has a normal voice and can't sing. It would have been fun to hear Manu sing now and see if the rough voice makes a difference ;-)

They talked about one of my favorite artist when it comes Trad Jazz: Banu Gibson. Banu Gibson has released many good albums.

The 8-Count Swing featured songs from film soundtracks. A modern classic is "Business Of Love" by Domino from The Mask Soundtrack.

As usual I recommended music to them, this is what I wrote:

"I'd like to share some of my recent finds. First out is the singer Lannie Garrett who lives in Denver, Colorado where she has her own night club.

Lannie's voice has a certain "assertiveness" to it, it's strong and powerful. I'd like to recommend her album "Kick it" where almost every song is great for dancing, you don't find many albums like that.

I get positive comments about the songs whenever I dj them at a dance. Her band has that full big band sound that I really like."

Have you listened to Hey Mr Jesse March edition? What do you think of it? Tell me.