Shuffle Rhythm – Phantom Dancer 7 September 2021

Greg Poppleton's Phantom Dancer swing jazz radio show

Shuffle Rhythm features in this week’s Phantom Dancer with a set of 1930s shuffle rhythm by the exponents of the style, Jan Savitt and Henry Busse

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SHUFFLE

Is one of three varieties of quaver (or eighth note) rhythms musicians use. The others are straight and swing. It’s based on triplet subdivisions of the beat and it’s easiest to understand it by hearing it, hence the shuffle rhythm videos and set featuring Jan Savitt and Henry Busse.

Shuffle quavers alternate a long note and a short note. The long note falls on the beat and the short one in-between on the upbeat. It’s a quaver triplet without playing the middle note of the triplet. Think of the first two notes of the triplet being tied together or even missing the middle note of the triplet.

NOTATION

Mostly if a song uses shuffle it does it all through the song. To make it easier to read the notation the notes are written as straight quavers. At the start of the music there’ll be a note to read the quavers as shuffle quavers.

A common marking for shuffle is a little equation written at the beginning expressing 2 quavers are to be played like a triplet with the first two notes tied. Or, the first two quavers of the triplet are written as a crochet.

Another way to indicating shuffle is to simply write the word shuffle at the top of the music.

7 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #508
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 SEPTEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller in German
Spoken Intro + Here We Go Again	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Begin the Beguine	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Sing a Song About Susie	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Aug 1944
As If I Didn’t Have Enough on my Mind	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Lind	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Room Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Aug 1946
Riff Raff + Close	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Band	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944
Set 3	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + The March of the Goons	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Long, Long Ago	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Dark Eyes	Toots Mondelo	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Swanee River	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 4	Shuffle Rhythm
Hot Lips (theme)+ Hurry Home	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
Cherokee	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
Set 5	Swing Musicians Play Rock
Come A’Runnin’	Big Al Sears (voc) Jessie Stone	Comm Rec NYC 22 Apr 1955
Open + Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Let’s Face It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
I Almost Lost My Mind	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Ivory Joe Hunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Set 6	Harry James Sells Bonds
Intro + Save The American Way	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
This is Worth Fighting For	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Saunders	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
My Beloved is Rugged	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Back Beat Boogie + Close	Harry James Orchestra	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Set 7	Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions
Snuff Stuff	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Walkin’ the Dog	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
It Never Entered My Mind	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1948
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Not So Sleepy	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957

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