Solomon Douglas

Order your copy of Live at the Legion, the new CD by the Solomon Douglas Swingtet

The Solomon Douglas Swingtet has two CDs available. The exciting second CD by the Solomon Douglas Swingtet, titled Live at the Legion, was released on June 15th, 2009. The new CD was recorded live in concert at the Stomp it Off! dance, at the Grandview Legion, in Vancouver, BC. Scroll down to listen to clips from the new album.

The first CD, Swingmatism, which sounds just as awesome today as it did when it was released in 2006, can be purchased from CD Baby, or by selecting the second option, below: buy both albums together for one great low price!

The band on the new album is an all-star lineup including Vancouver trumpet sensation Bria Skonberg, legendary Seattle drummer D'Vonne Lewis, New York trombone wiz-kid and recording engineer Eric Heveron-Smith, and Portland sax player (and a great bandleader in his own right) Pete Petersen, with Solomon Douglas himself leading the band, playing the piano and writing all the musical arrangements.

The beautiful oil painting on the cover is by Seattle artist Brecca Smith.

If you don't yet have the first CD, Swingmatism, then order both CDs together at one great price!

Also available: t-shirts!

Live at the Legion only $15
Live at the Legion together with Swingmatism (two great albums for one low price!) $25

All prices are in US dollars. Shipping and handling is a flat $5.00 to anywhere in the world.

There are 16 songs on the album, all of which are instrumental numbers arranged by Solomon Douglas. You can listen to each track by clicking on the appropriate Ogg or MP3 link in the table below. (The Ogg files are smaller and sound better than the MP3 files.)

titletimebpmlisten
1.Rockin’ in Rhythm3:05197OggMP3
2.I Needs to Be Bee’d With5:1888OggMP3
3.Two for the Blues3:20110OggMP3
4.South3:17182OggMP3
5.New Orleans4:38106OggMP3
6.Splanky4:35135OggMP3
7.Centerpiece5:07111OggMP3
8.Shorty George2:49212OggMP3
9.Buffalo Blues4:24119OggMP3
10.Saturday Night Function3:20105OggMP3
11.Singin’ the Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home3:26128OggMP3
12.East St. Louis Toodle-Oo3:1692OggMP3
13.Funk Junction4:39113OggMP3
14.Jumpin’ at the Woodside3:30252OggMP3
15.Dream a Little Dream of Me4:0777OggMP3
16.One O’Clock Jump4:34198OggMP3

Be among the very first to own a copy of the second CD by the Solomon Douglas Swingtet!

“Your disc is excellent, perfect for dancing. Congrats on releasing an exceptionally good recording.”  —Jim Wheatley, swing DJ (Atlanta, GA)

“This is an awesome CD, y’all. Totally worth it just for ‘New Orleans,’ ‘South,’ and ‘East St. Louis Toodle-Oo’ alone!”  —Breanna Perry, swing DJ (Nashville, TN)

“HOLY SCHMOLY! This is a wicked awesome CD! I highly suggest you all get it now! DANG, Solomon, you out-did yourself on this one! Thumbs up!”  —Jeff Miller, swing DJ (Virginia Beach, VA)

“I just got mine, and I'm telling you guys, doesn't matter if you like Blues or Bal, there are songs that's great for everyone. Go get it!”  —Patty Holmes, swing DJ (Houston, TX)

“Last night at the weekly Penn State swing club meeting, we danced to several tracks from Solomon’s new CD. Each one was a big hit with the dancers, getting everyone out on the floor! At first the DJ mixed Solomon’s tunes in with others, but the club members were so excited to hear the new CD that it was decided to just let it play. The variety of tempos, the quality of the arrangements, and the talent of the performers involved kept everyone excited both to dance and to listen. But how can you not be itching to dance to such great stuff??”  —Annabel Truesdell, swing dancer (State College, PA)

“This is a really good CD. Its not often that a single CD has so many good tracks on it. Not just the standard fare, there is some really well thought out selections and some real emotion in the music on here. This is even better than the previous CD. DJing from an album with this production quality and energy is the next best thing to a live band. It’s definitely worth having for anyone who DJs, or as a CD to practice to.”  —Dan Newsome, swing instructor and DJ (Seattle, WA)

“We DJ’d your new CD at Penn State. I’m not sure if we intended to let the entire CD run, but Isaac played one, and then I had to hear ‘Shorty George’ and ‘Jumpin’ at the Woodside,’ and it just snowballed into an awesome night of music and dancing. So, the new CD is great.”  —Daniel Repsch, swing dancer (State College, PA)

“This is a pretty nice CD. It’s the sort of thing I’d recommend particularly to someone who’s just getting into ‘music for swing dancing’: it covers a few iconic swing songs in a few styles, it’s live so the energy is great, it’s a good quality recording so it’s nice for DJing, it’s a range of tempos. It’s also the sort of CD I’d recommend to someone who’s not really sure they like ‘old school’ swing—it has a few jumpy olden dayes songs, but in a context that’s a bit more accessible than 6-pack of scratchies. It’s also a modern band which caters specifically to dancers, and I think it’s worth supporting real, live bands whenever we can.”  —Sam Carroll, swing DJ (Sydney, Australia)