Tuesday Dance Trivia: Modern Lindy Hop dance teams and performance groups
by Alain Wong
Last week’s answer
During the Roaring 20’s, which black jazz band originating from New Orleans was the first to make recordings?
ANSWER: Kid Ory recorded the first two titles by a Black New Orleans jazz band (”Ory’s Creole Trombone” and “Society Blues”) under the band title of Spike’s Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra - also known as Kid Ory’s Original Creole Jazz Band.
Thank you Freddie for this source. Congrats to Amy, James and Freddie for all guessing the right answer. Thanks also to James for naming the first band to make a jazz recording (without regard to race) in New Orleans, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (in 1917).
This Week’s Tuesday Dance Trivia Question: Modern Lindy Hop dance teams and performance groups
Which modern Lindy Hop team originally performed to “The Last Jump (To End All Jumps)” by Charlie Barnet? Bonus question: which team got people talking by choreographing and performing to the same song a year later?
Know the answer? Let everyone know and comment.
Oo! One I actually know!
The team that did the choreography at ALHC to “The Last Jump” was the Silver Shadows–totally badass.
The next year, the Ninjammerz (another BadAss team, super appropriate since Max is on the team) used The Last Jump for the second half of their ULHS team choreography, which included a sort of homage to (or parody of, depends on your opinion) the Silver Shadows choreography.
congrats to Breanna.
I am still of the opinion that the Silver Shadows Last Jump choreo is the greatest recent one of our time.
I totally agree with Andrew! I remember that routine like it was yesterday, and it totally inspires me just thinking about it!
[...] Last week’s answer Which modern Lindy Hop team originally performed to “The Last Jump (To End All Jumps)” by Charlie Barnet? Bonus question: which team got people talking by choreographing and performing to the same song a year later? ANSWER: Silver Shadows performed to the song “The Last Jump (To End All Jumps)” by Charlie Barnet at the American Lindy Hop Championships in Stamford, CT in 2006. They also performed it at the US OPEN that year in Anaheim, CA. Ninjammerz performed a choreography mixing the slower Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra’s “Happy Go Lucky Local” and the faster “The Last Jump” during the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown in St. Paul, MN in 2007. [...]