Rockin' in Rhythm Royal Society Orch. 1990

[davidpalmquist]

Styles change over time. This group is playing Rockin' in Rhythm in the correct style for the period, which was before the swing era. Go to jazz-on-line (D O T )com (Slash) Duke_Ellington (D O T ) htm to hear how the musicians who made it a hit record played it in 1931.

[tdub1941]

Fantastic. I love it! Thanks for posting this one Mr. Erwig!

RagJazzMonkey Tom

[snorkelbda03]

The problem with "Jazz experts" is that they know so little about what they claim to know so much about. Duke without the swing? Duke was swingin like this in 1928-30 and played this song just like this...until Jazz became more as swing as we know it in the 30s-40s.

Break out your old 78s and do some research before opening your mouths.

[naizret]

It sounds exactly like Ellington's early versions.

[Prodigy502]

this is supposed to sound like duke's band in the 30's before rockin in rhythm got its new 60's arrangement

[zelde025]

Hallo Bob.

Ik ben wel wat laat met m'n opmerking maar......deze band is je zoveelste schot in de roos. Mijn dank.

Paul Zelders

[postbop]

It's like Ellington without the swing

[glennmiller2005]

@postbop it's like the original version.

[Koalkracker]

To IOLTA ... bands did play like this in the 1920's ... check out Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks on YouTube and others ... but first you should read what's written under "more info" above in the upper right hand corner concerning this band ... Don Neely and the ten piece Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, from San Francisco, are renowned for authentically capturing the exciting sound of Big Band Swing, Hot Syncopated Jazz, Blues, and music of the Cotton Club. This is 1920's jazz ... not Swing

[0800BOY]

watch the singing detective, the original dennis potter version, then you'll appreciate it.

[glennmiller2005]

this is just god honest 1920's dance music. if you can't appreciate the crisp, clean, steady beat, then you should go die in a well.

[IOLTA]

This is a parody, right? Some sort of weird joke to play Ellington, but suck out all of the jazz first?

This is disgusting.

[joejazz08]

Excelente banda la ROYAL SOCIETY ORCH.Saludos y felicitaciones desde Argentina,Buenos Aires.Gracias !!!!

[lineridervideos413]

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