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Jack Teagarden- Has anyone seen Jackson? How do you like this? I'm thinking I should get me some Jack Teagarden - any other CDs you like by him? Yeah overall it's pretty solid for a Teagarden disk. Right now I'm loving the opening track, "Fort Knox Jump." Out of the other Teagarden C.D's ...

Jack Teagarden- Has anyone seen Jackson?
Frankie "Half-Pint" Jakson- (1927-1940)
Frankie Trumbauer- Chronogical Classics (1928-1929)
Bunny Berigan- The Pied Piper
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Steakbone Slide Guitar
Clarence Williams- Chronogical Classics (1927)

djstarr wrote: I just catalogued Earl Hines Chronogical 1937-39 today; I really dig the last half of the recording with XYZ, GT Stomp, and the piano solo stuff.

Aw come on Brenda! XYZ and GT Stomp are sooooo August 2003! Get with the times girl!

It was collegiate but the old dancers simply call it "the shag"...i don't even think carolina shag was around in 1942 as a real developed dance... Basically you're correct about your comment. Carolina Shag was around starting in the late 30's on the shores of myrtle beach. In the 40's the...

GuruReuben wrote:

lindyholic wrote:so stuff like chrono classics are 15$ Canadian now.

Wow, $2.50 for a CC? Awesome

Hey! Thats $3.00 to you mister!

Joel

Great questions! She didn't talk about percentages of slow or fast songs. She didn't even talk about beats per minute. I was chatting with her at one of the dances and someone came up and started talking about how they performed a routine that was 250 bpm. She then said, "Beats per minute, beat...

Is it a tempo or feel requirement? Would Woody Herman's Goosey Gander (118), Jazz Archives No 86, be a lindy song? How about Lunceford's "Knock me a kiss" (117)? Sugar Sullivan, who was one of the dancers at the Savoy from 1948 to 1958 claims that they rarley danced Lindy to slower tempo ...

Just because it's been said before doesn't make it any less relevant.

What I find funny is that everyone I've met always associates "Wade" with the "Westie" scene when I heard it in Lindy circles for a long time before I heard it at a Westie dance. I also associate the song with a particular dancer that I like, so I guess that's another reason why...

A book that i found interesting was Emery, Lynne Fauley. Black Dance in the United States from 1619 to 1970. Palo Alto, Calif., 1972. Rev. ed. Princeton, 1988. It gives a good general sense of the characteristics and some idea of the changes over time. Nope haven't made it to that book yet. I've ju...

I was at the Smithsonian for their 150th Birthday celebration and one of the acts was these African dancers and their energy and quite of few of their moves looked just like early charleston and jazz steps. Oh damn! We're going back to Africa now! I guess that was inevitable if we're talking about ...

There are clips of Sammy Davis Jr dancing as a child and some of the stuff he did looks just like break dancing.

Ha! And check out the beginning of Spike Lee's "Do the right thing." If that isn't Charleston then I don't know what is.

I think if we limit ourselves to labelling the blues as only having a certain sound or cord progression then we loose the feeling of what the blues means to so many people today. I think if you want to make statements about the blues having a very particular sound then you should say for example, &q...

Yeah it's a pretty cool read. . . The first three quarters anyway. . . once he starts talking about marching bands it gets pretty boring. But as for the relation between blues and Jazz I think the two are linked. I mean Jazz comes out of the blues. Without the blues there never would have been any J...

I'm pretty sure its Chick Webb's band. I've heard that from more than a few sources. At the back of Stearn's "Jazz Dance" that's who he labels the band as being. . .

Joel