No fading between songs (was Re: How to Play for Dancing)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yet at the major West Coast Swing conventions around here
>I hear the DJs change immediately to the next number (no gap).
>Is the advice out of date? Or don't the DJs do that elsewhere?
>
>One difference may be that musicians left to their own devices
>prefer to smoothly segue into the next melody,
>whereas the DJs change to a song that is obviously different.
>
>Maybe you can change your advice so that it allows
>something similar to what the DJs are doing.

    Alternatively, maybe the DJs should be paying more attention to the
dancers who find this practice annoying.
    Jon
    __@/