An annotated compilation of videos of the Saturday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Saturday
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Sunday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Sunday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Monday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Monday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
The Boilermaker Jazz Band at The Jam Cellar 7/7/09 and an Appreciation
The Boilermaker Jazz Band came back to The Jam Cellar last night, this time fielding a smaller group of Paul Cosentino on clarinet and saxophone, Mark Kotision on piano, and Rich Strong on drums. Betsy Kipperman also made a brief appearance with the band singing “Me, Myself, and I” and “I Can’t Give You Anything, but Love.” One of these days I’m going to do a larger feature about the Boilermakers, but today I just want to talk about drummer, Rich Strong.
Video Addendum
I deleted two video’s that were part of my-favorite-routines-of-the-past year-list. So because I have some time before checking out The Boilermaker Jazz Band at The Jam Cellar tonight, I present those videos here to keep Paul busy until my massive update later this week.
Foreword for "Artistry In Rhythm": Why write a 70 page paper about the modern Lindy Hop community?
I was going to list and talk about some of my favorite Lindy Hop routines from over the years, but then I ended up focusing two routines that had a profound effect on the development of our community: Minnies’ Moochers “Love Me or Leave Me” routine and Mad Dog’s “Well Git It!”
Self Promotion & Creative Risk in Lindy Hop
Lindy Hoppers occasionally make some questionable choices to get their names out. Most of them fall under the heading of mildly amusing, but I’m not here to mock people . . . or at least not today.
JazzWax: Interview with Brooks Tegler & corrections
As a follow up to my review of his big band last Saturday night, here's an interesting interview with Brooks Tegler on Jazzwax.com. Also a correction from yesterday's post. Scott Silbert was the tenor saxaphonist on Saturday night, not Silver as I misheard and wrote. You can read about him by following this link.
Also, Don Lerman was on sax, not sex as I mistyped. Baritone with the big band and alto, I think, with the small group.
Review: The Brooks Telger Big Band and Combo at Glen Echo, June 27, 2009
First real blog post, a review of the dance hosted by The Jam Cellar in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park last night with The Brooks Tegler Big Band.
Welcome!
I’d like to welcome you to my long awaited blog. Here, I’m going to jibber jabber about a variety of subjects that interest me. Hopefully they will interest you as well. To start out with, I’ll be discussing my main hobby of Lindy Hop. In addition to dancing, I’ve been involved with this community in a number of different roles now for over 10 years.
I also have about 10 years of event planning and management experience, so I will probably talk a bit about the few dance events that I attend and help organize every year.
My love of the dance also lead to my passion for vintage jazz; the kind of music played in the early half of the 20th century. Although I also have a personal attachment to soul and R & B music from the other half. I may even mention the little I know of alternative/college rock from the early to mid-90’s that I picked up as a college DJ.
I also love the city I live in, Washington, DC, and I hope to post a few things about it. While I do work for the government in the day time as a low level bureaucrat, my interests mostly relate to the city’s historical heritage and current social dynamics. Hopefully this will also allow me to explore the inner armchair urban planner in me.
I guess the common link through most of my interests is people and how they relate to each other. Because of that, I’ve been learning quite a bit about intercultural communication and conflict negotiation in the past few years.
I think this ties in nicely to my love of the study of history. I got a degree in History too many years ago because I liked to learn about people’s stories. Not just the great leaders and wars ( although that’s how I got sucked into it) but how ordinary people lived in extraordinary times; especially how they were affected by grand events and what roles they played in them.
I think all these experiences is what led me to write a 70 page paper about the development of the modern Lindy Hop community. I never bothered to publish it anywhere because I ended up disagreeing with my own conclusions after I finished it. However, there’s enough material in there to chop up and post as little bits on this blog, so there won’t be a lack of material to start at least.
Whether you agree or disagree with me I hope that you at least you enjoy yourself as you procrastinate here.
Jerry