Swing Timer: Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch. - Blue Blazes, 1939

[tango3721]

Hi Grzegorz - This vid is upbeat and fun! The artwork dazzles and sizzles - especially frame 1:10. Have a super great summer day - oh - frame 1:57 is also awesome!

[240252]

@tango3721 These female models are typical pin-up girls from calendars or illustrated magazines from early 1940s. American soldiers pinned them up over their beds during WWII.

[barbcard]

Burns with the blazing blues of the era, intense as the stunning blue ice of a glacier.

Not really a mixed metaphor! Thanks, B.

[240252]

@barbcard It's a perfect metaphore. In spite of these half-naked beach models I selected as illustrations, what I hear beneath is ice-blue perfection of this music. It's so clear- and precisely cut that it almost feezes