Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:56 am
swing101
The text book will be This Thing Called Swing by Christian Batchelor.
A Flash Tour of Book
recommended reading, viewing, and listening:
II. Dance
A. Websites
A. Web sites:
The text book will be This Thing Called Swing by Christian Batchelor.
A Flash Tour of Bookrecommended reading, viewing, and listening:
- Get That Swing, Live interview with Frankie Manning, Tuesday, January 26, 1999
- 2000 National Heritage Fellowships in the Folk & Traditional Arts, FRANKIE MANNING Lindy Hop Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher; Corona, New York
- Ken Burns Jazz
- KBJ Essay on Dance and Jazz
- Smithsonian Interactive Jazz Class
- Natch dot net Swing Videos
- EMERY, Lynn Fauley, Black Dance, from 1619 to today, Princeton Book Co., Pennington, NJ, 1972, 1988
- Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance,by Marshall Winslow Stearns, Brenda Bufalino (Designer), Jean Stearns
Samples Pages - TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories 1900-1955, by Rusty E. Frank, Gregory Hines
Sample Pages - An American Ballroom Companion, Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection - Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community, is a history education portfolio that has been produced by the Educational Programs unit of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- A Condensed Version of the Origins of Jazz Dancing in America by Bob Boross
- Harlem Rent Parties
II. Dance
A. Websites
- Savoy Ballroom 1926-1958
- The Savoy Ballroom Plaque
- The California Jazz Dance Foundation (Peter Loggins)
- Archives of Early Lindy Hop
biography
videography
store - The Lindy, Margaret Batiuchok
- Lindy Hop Switzerland Encyclopedia
- U.S. Swing Dance Server, Swing Styles
- Sonny Watson's Street Swing
- Total Swing On-line
- New York Public Library - Dance
- Swinging At The Savoy The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer, by Norma Miller, Evette Jensen Sample Pages
- Swingin' the Dream, by Lewis A. Erenberg
Sample Pages - Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal America, by David W. Stowe
Excerpts - The Swing Book, by Degen Pener, Scotty Morris
- Swing! The New Retro Renaissance, by V. Vale (Editor), Marian Wallace (Editor)
- Natch dot net Swing Videos
- ERNIE SMITH JAZZ FILM COLLECTION,
1894 - 1979 #491 (30 cubic feet: 352 reels of 16mm motion picture film)
Frankie Manning Clip
Spirit Moves Clip
Sandra Gibson Clip
Cab Calloway Clip
Beginner
Intermediate
Fast Technique - Marcus Clip
Jonathan & Sylvia Clip - Evin & Erin at Lindy Show Down
A. Web sites:
- All Music dot Com
- MusicWeb Encyclopedia of Popular Music
- Welcome to the World of Jazz - By Leigh Kamman, May 1997
This introduction is a resource guide of music, videos, and books from the different eras of the genre.
Take a tour through the pages of each musical period or style, listed below, and select at least one
performance from each style. Then check the complementary media or CD liner notes, as well as the books
and videos supporting the music and the artists. If the music seems strange to your ear, set it aside.
Continue to search sample and review until you find what you like. The more you listen, the more you will discover.
Jazz Roots in the Blues (Country and Urban)
Jazz from Traditional to Swing (New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York)
The Age of Swing (Big Bands and Small Groups)
Be-Bop to Cool: An Evolution (East Coast and West Coast)
Evolution (The Free Movement and the Avant-Garde)
Women and the Jazz Challenge (Composers, Arrangers, Conductors, and Instrumentalists)
The Singers (The Women and the Men)
The Latin Tinge (Afro-Cuban to Brazilian) - The Swing Era, Harvard Class
Handouts: Swing Song Outlines
Lectures
Song List
Song Personnel List
Glossary - The Red Hot Jazz Archive
- NPR Jazz
- Smithsonian Jazz - America's Jazz Heritage
Smithsonian Jazz
Interactive Jazz Classes
What is Jazz
Duke Ellington - What is jazz?
Interactive Jazz Class
- Jazz Roots
- All That Jazz: Early Jazz History
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Library of Congress The Guide to Jazz in Film Bibliography
Jazz Bibliography
Motion Picture & Television Reading Room - Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Jazz Appreciation Month Resources
jazz class
jazz web
America's Jazz Heritage
Jazz Age in Paris
jazz singers - Jazz: Marking Time in American Culture
<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212 ... html">Jazz Roots</a>
<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212 ... tml">Swing Era</a>
<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212 ... html">Cool Jazz and Hard Bop</a>
<a href="http://www.people.virginia.edu/~skd9r/M ... ew/">Music 212: History of Jazz Music</a> - Swing Music dot Net
- Big Bands Database
- Craig's Big Bands and Big Names dot Com
- HOT CLUB de FRANCE Féd
Association des amateurs de jazz authentique, créée en 1932 par Hugues PANASSIE
Comité de direction de 10 membres. Organe de presse: bulletin du HCF.
(Association loi de 1901 déclarée n° 1271.)
Contact: président Jacques Pescheux, 8 rue Epinay F91700 St GENEVIEVE/bois E-MAIL
Photos
Portraits - Louis Armstrong: Celebrating the Life and Work of a Jazz Legend
Louis Armstrong House & Archives
Louis Armstrong Discography
- The Official Duke Ellington Site
- Duke Ellington: Celebrating 100 Years of the Man and His Music
Resources
Scrapbook
Ellington, Music, and Color - Lessons - Rude Interlude, A Duke Ellington Page
- Duke Ellington's Washington
- The Duke Ellington Society: An Appreciation of the Great Duke Ellington
- Ellington at 100, NY Times
- An index to Music is My Mistress by, Jørgen Mathiasen
- Ellington Strayhorn Songbook
- Swingin' with Duke
- Complete List of Duke Ellington Songs
- Count Basie Discography
MusicHall Basie Discography
Basie Music Discography
Russian Basie Page Discography
The Iceberg Basie Discography
Counterpoint Music Basie Discography
Three Deuces Basie Discography
Bebop Grotto Basie Discography - Count Basie Stocks
- The Loss of Count Basie - Atlantic Monthly August 1984
- A Great Day In Harlem
Album List
- The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz, Vol. 2),by Gunther Schuller Sample Pages
- Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development,by Gunther Schuller
- Da Capo Press Classic Jazz Books
- Billy Taylor lectures on jazz
- Schomburg Center Video Oral History Gallery
Selected Clips (some with full inteviews via STREAMING VIDEO) from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project - Oscar Peterson, A Jazz Sensation
- Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Giant
- A Virtual Tour - Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald, A-tisket A-Tasket
- duke, what is jazz?
- DC Jazz
mp3s
streaming radio
- A 42eXplore project on jazz music with links to hundreds of biography sites for singers and musicians.
More Jazz
Dance
Harlem
More Harlem - JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY, FURTHER READING
- Catalogue - Black dance
- The Evolution of the Jazz Trombone, David M. Wilken,
Part 1, Dixieland
Part 2, The Swing Era
Part 3, Bebop - Swing Music
a look at how and why the Jazz Age became the Swing Era
a definition of swing music
the great names in swing: musicians and vocalists - On-line Ballet Dictionary
Electrical Ballerina
