The venue’s website: https://www.breakawayswing.com/
The Breakaway normally doesn’t split the night between two DJs, but this was the night I went from university-club-n00b-DJ to actual-paid-DJ, so I was DJ #2 with Rachel Phillips as DJ #1. The swap happened at the jam song, and Breakaway tradition is to play the Shim Sham right after.
| Song | Artist1 | Original Record2 | BPM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Ridge Drive3 | The Big 18 | More Live Echoes Of The Swinging Bands (1959) | 142 | |
| ‘Tain’t What You Do4 | Jimmie Lunceford | Vocalion-4582 (1939) | 160 | |
| A Mellow Bit of Rhythm | L.A. Swing Barons | Kansas City Stride (2017) | 150 | |
| A Chicken Ain’t Nothing But A Bird | Cab Calloway | Okeh-5847 (1940) | 161 | |
| Hoodle Addle | The Mad Hat Hucksters | Swing and Jazz Music for Dancing (2017) | 141 | |
| Perdido | Johnny Hodges | Mercer LP-1006 (1951) | 153 | |
| Rose Room | Artie Shaw | Bluebird B-10148 (1939) | 133 | |
| Bot Bot | Paul Quinichette | EmArcy-16009 (1952) | 142 | |
| You’re an Old Smoothie | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Swings Lightly (1958) | 129 | |
| Sent For You Yesterday | Count Basie | Decca-1880 (1938) | 173 | |
| I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo | Benny Goodman with Dick Haymes | Columbia-36622 (1942) | 151 | |
| Steppin’ in Rhythm | Glenn Crytzer | Ain’t It Grand (2018) | 157 | |
| Blues in Hoss’ Flat | Count Basie | Chairman of the Board (1959) | 142 | |
| Everybody Eats When They Come To My House | Cab Calloway | Columbia-38171 (1948) | 153 | |
| Let’s Get Drunk and Truck | The Rhythm Roustabouts | The Rhythm Roustabouts (2017) | 163 |
- I use the main artist credited in the record, cutting off “…and His Orchestra” for brevity. I include other credited artists when relevant. [return]
- I move from label catalogue numbers to album names once full albums start getting produced in the mid-50s. I use the session year instead of the release year when relevant. I’ve also attempted to find streaming links where possible, but YMMV on region blocking and audio quality. [return]
- Used for the jam [return]
- Used for the Shim Sham [return]