An annotated compilation of videos of the Friday night activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
Frankie 95 Video Roundup: Friday night
Frankie95 Video Roundup: Saturday
An annotated compilation of videos of the Saturday activities at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival.
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.