Jodi was pretty much born listening to swing music, since her father was a multi-instrumentalist Jazz musician who jammed on a star-spangled band stand in their playroom! She began DJing in 2018 at the Balboa Experiment, after twenty years of swing dancing. Since then, she has DJ’d at M.I.T., the Balboa Speakeasy, Hop to the Beat, and JP Swings—as well as for many online events and fundraisers, including Paul Riding’s Global Online Social. Recently, she was a Spotlight DJ for a clarinet set with the online Swing DJ Relay. Her taste leans towards an “in the pocket” old-school groove, with a passion for Basie’s sidemen, Benny Goodman’s small groups, Anita O’Day, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Oscar Peterson. But as a Balboa dancer, she knows how to up the tempo, too! Mainly, she just loves watching people have a great time dancing to her tunes.