Savoy Nites by Joe Salzano & the Blue Devils

Robert Bell, professional guitarist at the Twin Cities Hot Club and a devotee of gypsy jazz music, has ordered this CD, which gets good reviews from the Swing dance crowd.

Ron’s CD Review writes "This band was excellent at the Hop the Millenium dance competition in Ensenada, Mexico." Ron likes "Blue Devil Stomp" (39 MPM) and the six-minute original "Phantom Blues" (37 MPM).

DJ Ryan Swift says, "The whole album is great plus it’s the first band I danced to live."

Available from Telemark Music.

We’ve lost track of the band. Anyone know where they’re playing now?

Steppin’ Out with Charles Barlow & His Orchestra

Here is the dance band that thrilled dancers at Blackpool for many years. Their final album, a rich mixture of Smooth and Latin, is now available for the first time on CD.

To order, contact Telemark Music.

Dick’s Daily Pick

I ran across an ethereally beautiful slow rumba, Massenet’s “Meditation” on the CD “Steppin’ Out”
by the Charles Barlow Orchestra that used to play at Blackpool It’s 28 MPM and lasts 2:36 min.
I can’t get the melody out of my head. It would
make a great exhibition
selection. Another haunting, and beautiful,
slow rumba is the movie
theme “Winds of War” on
the same album.

Dick’s Daily Pick

If you like German songs and sharp tangos, you’ll enjoy “Pariser Tango” sung by the French artist
Mireille Mathieu. It’s a rollicking good tango on
Superior Dancing 4, and is accompanied by the familiar and beautiful “Hor Mein Lied,
Violetta”, an instrumental by the Bela
Sanders Orchestra.

DICK’S DAILY PICK

Today it’s a SAMBA.  It’s COPACABANA, and they

played it on “Dancing with the Stars” this week.  I found a good recording of it on STAND TOGETHER PLEASE by Irvin

Tidswell and His Orchestra, the band that played at

the Blackpool Championships for some years.  This

recording has a clear samba rhythm, at a comfortable

speed of 51 MPM and just the right length of 2:19

Dick’s Daily Pick

Today I/m choosing the beautiful instrumental international rumba “Aria” on the Tony Evans and his orch. CD “Somewhere in Time:. It’s 2:46 min. in length and 27 MPM.  There’s another melodious rumba

medley on the same CD, which is a mixture of Standard and Latin.