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Marathon set from Dockside Swing, supporting the Bandwagon Swing Orchestra (from Stockholm), 8th April 2017

What a great night! I played 4 hours of music, whew. Swungover.

Count Basie - Solid as a Rock Jimmie Lunceford - For Dancers Only Lester Young - Jive at Five Charlie Barnet - The Gal from Joe's Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Christopher Columbus Slim & Slam - Jump Session Louis Armstrong - The Bare Necessities Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - So Do I Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - Midnight in Moscow Duke Ellington - Take the 'A' Train Cherokee - Charlie Barnet

**band set**

Glenn Miller - Wham Gordon Webster feat. Jesse Selengut - Buckin' the Dice Count Basie - Shiny Stockings June Christy - Whatcha Know Joe COUNT BASIE BIGBAND - Splanky 3 Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - C Jam Blues Count Basie and his Orchestra - Corner Pocket

**band set**

Count Basie - Blues in Hoss' Flat Tommy Dorsey - Yes Indeed Roy Milton - Short, Sweet and Snappy Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Coleslaw Count Basie Orchestra feat. Joe Williams - Hallelujah I Love Her So Milt Hilton - Four or Five Times Roy Milton - 'Tain't Me Gordon Webster - Comes Love Ella Fitzgerald - Too Darn Hot Anita O'Day - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine Cab Calloway - Jive (Page One of the Hepster's Dictionary) Fats Waller - All That Meat and No Potatoes Artie Shaw - Begin the Beguine Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Mary Lou Williams - Bearcat Shuffle The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Jersey Bounce Delta Four - Swingin On The Famous Door Same Price - I Know How To Do It The Harlem Hamfats - Let's Get Drunk And Truck Slim & Slam - Look-A There Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Shout, Sister, Shout Wes Montgomery - Lavender Coffin Gordon Webster - I Like Pie Artie Shaw - Frenesi Peter Davis - Moten Swing Bill Elliot - Streamliner Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump Fats Waller & His Rhythm - Yacht Club Swing Cab Calloway - (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive Chick Webb feat. Ella Fitzgerald - 'Tain't What You Do, It's The Way That Cha Do It Una Mae Carlisle - Oh I'm Evil Julia Lee - King Size Papa Dinah Washington - I Diddle Ella Fitzgerald - 720 In The Books Julia Lee - I Didn't Like It The First Time Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife Nina Simone - Love me Or Leave Me Lisa Ekdahl - Vem Vet Girls From Mars - Straighten Up and Fly Right Naomi & Her Handsome Devils - Take It Easy Greasy Ruth Brown - 5-10-15 Hours Sticks McGhee - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Colvers - One Mint Julep Five Rhythm Kings - Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

**“last song!” called**

Carsie Blanton - Baby Can Dance Sam & Dave - Hold on, I'm Comin

A few shots from the weekend. For more of my pics see photos.sarawallen.com

Just a walk around Hamburg, last month

I find it helps more to know that “müssen” is “must” or “have to” and “brauchen” is “to need”.

You never say “I must” or “I have to” without a verb after in English, either. I must eat, you must go, I have to do my homework, etc. But we do say “I need” without a verb - I need water, I need you, I need food.

I guess there’s some grey area here, as in English we might say we “need to” do something. But “need to” is back to being like “have to”, “must” etc.

Also you do get one instance of müssen without a verb, only in one situation: “Ich muss mal!” - I need to pee!

grammatical german questions?? well is it a rule to use 'müssen' with verbs and 'brauchen' with nouns? or are there exceptions

You can ask those too! 

So müssen is a modal verb, and those 9/10 are paired with an infinitive (Ich muss gehen, ich muss arbeiten, etc. but you can also say ich kann Deutsch for example, and no infinitive is necessary). With müssen, you always use it for verbs though. And then you’re correct that brauchen is always used with nouns (Ich brauche Milch, mehr Zeit, usw.). I’ve never heard them used any other way, so I think if there are any exceptions, they are probably few and far between :)

I hope that helps!! :)

...and the reverse

My next protest here in Hamburg isn't until tomorrow - but I am posting this now in solidarity with the Brits who are protesting today! #resist

I’m adding a new blog

Specifically for photos.

I’ve tried 500px, I’m not sure I’m going to get along with it - it’s nice to get lots of likes for your photos, but the nicest feature is the portfolio, and that requires quite a lot of money to keep after the trial period.

Flickr was where I normally kept my photos, but I’m no longer so keen on that either, I want to design (or at least tweak) my own layouts. So here I am, setting up another tumblr blog as my portfolio :)

I’ll eventually make photos.sarawallen.com point to it, but for now you’ll see old and new photos of mine trickle onto sarajphotos.tumblr.com

Thanks!

I was very proud to be asked to DJ some swing slots for New Year Swing & Blues 2016 - and with such a strong female DJ team too!

Tunisian (or Afghan) crochet, merino wool, blanket scarf.

Awesome project. Only took 3 weeks, I took it on a work trip to the US so I could work on it during the long haul flight - that was such a good idea!

I love this style and I LOVE my blanket scarf.

Pretty pastel baby blanket of granny squares with scalloped edging.

This was more frustrating than it should have been! I got a little bit of closure when finishing each square, but then also the angst of picking the colours so that they continued to look randomly... even. Evenly random.

Crochet Crazy

Coming up, some huge photo posts of my crocheting activity from the last year...

Me me me there’s nothing really right now but I have been on such a crochet frenzy lately that I’m about to post several big crochet photo-posts :D

update!

I haven’t been on here for ages, but I definitely hadn’t lost my interests for wooly matters. I just have been neglecting my tumblr. I will update it soon ..

My feed is also a mess because of that and I would love to find some more knitting/crocheting/fibre blogs to follow.

So if you have a a blog that has any yarn/knitting/crochet related content, please like this post or reblog this post so I can check it out :) !

Dockside Swing 8th Oct 2016

Slim & Slam - Groove Juice Special Count Basie - Corner Pocket Lester Young - Jive at Five Peter Davis - Moten Swing Carmen McRae - Exactly Like You Victrola - Drop Me Off in Harlem Jimmie Luncefored - For Dancers Only Roy Milton - Short, Sweet and Snappy Count Basie - Solid as a Rock Gene Krupa - Let Me off Uptown Count Basie - Who, Me?

Tommy Dorsey - Yes Indeed Gordon Webster - Comes Love Gordon Webster & Hetty Kate - How D'ya Like to Love Me? Paula Watson - I Want A Short, Squat, Big Fat Papa Gordon Webster & Jesse Selengut - Buckin' the Dice

Count Basie - Blues in Hoss' Flat Duke Ellington - Ko-Ko Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Stompin' at the Savoy Glenn Miller - A String of Pearls Benny Goodman - Christopher Columbus Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp Duke Ellington - Take the a Train Glenn Miller - Wham Sam Price - I Know How to Do It Chick Webb - In The Groove At The Grove The Boilermaker Jazz Band - So Far, So Good Gordon Webster & Naomi Uyama - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing Cab Calloway - At the Clambake Carnival Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - King Porter Stomp Fats Waller - Chant of the Groove Sidney Bechet - Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me Louis Jordan - Coleslaw Lionel Hampton & Wes Montgomery - Lavender Coffin Count Basie Big Band - Splanky Gordon Webster - I Like Pie, I Like Cake The Puppini Sisters - In The Mood King Kong: An African Jazz Opera - Kwela Long Nina Simone - Love Me or Leave Me Ella Fitzgerald - On the Sunny Side of the Street Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Why Don't You Do Right Go Home Productions - Passenger Fever (Peggy Lee vs Iggy Pop) Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog Etta James - I Just Want To Make Love To You Alberta Hunter - My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More

HHLX (Hamburg Lindy Exchange) 2016  Boat Trip set

Several times over the 2 hours of this I was interrupted by the automatic traffic announcements on the boat’s stereo I was playing through! Sometimes they even came in just at the right point in a phrase...

Roy Milton - Short, Sweet and Snappy Gordon Webster feat. Jesse Selengut  Buckin' the Dice The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Drop Me Off in Harlem Count Basie - Corner Pocket Fats Waller - Yacht Club Swing Linnzi Zaorski - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.wma The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Slow Boat to China Ella Fitzgerald - 720 In The Books June Christy - Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy Anita O'Day - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine Jimmie Lunceford - For Dancers Only Slim & Slam - Tutti Frutti Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Shout, Sister, Shout! Fats Waller - Twenty-four Robbers Sidney Bechet - Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me Peter Davis - Moten Swing King Kong Cast - Kwela Long Gordon Webster - I Like Pie, I Like Cake Glenn Miller - Wham June Christy - Whatcha Know Joe Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons Wes Montgomery - Lavender Coffin Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - C Jam Blues Count Basie Big Band - Splanky Victrola - Drop Me Off in Harlem Ella Fitzgerald - On the Sunny Side of the Street Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Love Me or Leave Me Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain Gordon Webster - Sister Kate PreservationHall Jazz Band - Shake That Thing Carsie Blanton - Baby Can Dance C2C - Happy [feat. Derek Martin] Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

Altonale swingt! 13th July 2016

So my set was cut a little short by noise complaints (booo!), meaning I only got to play until 22:30 instead of getting to play out ‘til midnight after the band’s second set.

Either way, I still very much enjoyed playing! My set(s), all at a middling tempo to complement Les Benoîts’ music:

Jimmie Lunceford - For Dancers Only Jesse Selengut - [Live at Boston Swing Central #03] Buckin' the Dice Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - C Jam Blues Count Basie - [Chairman of the Board #01] Blues in Hoss' Flat Benny Goodman - Blue Lou Duke Ellington - [I Never Felt This Way Before #15] Ko-Ko Roy Milton - Short, Sweet and Snappy Count Basie and His Orchestra - Corner Pocket June Christy - Whatcha Know Joe Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Opus One Artie Shaw - Just Kiddin’ Around Glenn Miller - A String of Pearls

--oOo--  Les Benoîts band set 1, followed by lovely dance routine by the Trundling Bumble Bees (Hamburg’s finest charleston troupe!)  --oOo--

Gordon Webster - [Live in Philadelphia #12] Sister Kate Benny Goodman w/ Peggy Lee - On The Sunny Side Of Street Louis Prima - [Capitol Collectors Series #01] Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody Paula Watson - I Want A Short, Squat, Big Fat Papa Four Clefs - I Like Pie, I Like Cake The Palmetto Bug Stompers - [Live @ D.B.A. #09] Lil Brown Jug

...and from here the band played a fantastic acoustic set in front of the stage for almost another 45 mins! This kept both those complaining about the amplified noise and the dancers very happy :) THANK YOU!

2016 Project: Wk23 W PP: Wasserlichtkonzerte - Hamburg's Planten & Blomen park gives a musical fountain display at 22:00 every night during the summer http://flic.kr/p/J4wbA8