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Shake that thing

Savoy Blues

Royal garden blues

Piano, tuba, banjo,

Swing = walking base

Charleston

Anthropologists and dance historians have pointed out that the basic step is an exact replica of
an old African Dance, the Ashanti "Ancestor Dance," and that its variations often mirror a
Haitian dance called "La Martinique"

Rent parties in Harlem  Norma Miller learned the Charleston when she was a child

Snowden could only explain that his breakaway was made up of "fast" fancy footwork work
that no one had seen before, and that it seemed dazzling and new (Stearns and Stearns, 316).
Dance instructors have generally agreed that Snowden's "breakaway" move in the 1928
marathon was probably some eight-count pattern (based on the rhythm of Charleston), which
became the Lindy Hop's basic step.

Tamara Stevens;Erin Stevens. Swing Dancing (The American Dance Floor) (Posición en
Kindle604-606). Edición de Kindle.

Louis Armstrong, trumpet

Lionel Hampton, vibrafonista, pianist, baterista

Duke Ellington, pianista

Johnny Hodges, sazo

Teddy Wilson, piano

Oscar Peterson, piano

Fats Waller, piano

Lester Young, saxo

Illinois Jacquet, saxo


Count Basie, piano

Roy Eldrige, trumpet

Slim Gaillard, piano, guitarra

Jimmie Lunceford, saxo

Artie Shaw, clarinete

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