#1 Swing-Out Zoot-Up! (eCD)

Cover Design: Patternizer

TRACK LISTING

1. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Mr Pinstripe Suit
2. Penny and the Swinging Cats – Johnny got a boom boom
3. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Swing it
4. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – I wanna be like you
5. Ella Fitzgerald (Club de Belugas Remix) – Air mail special
6. Royal Crown Revue – Hey pachuco
7. Dunkelbunt – Cinnamon girl
8. Mo Horizons – Pe na estrada
9. Klein Mein – Κrisi
10. Muchachito – El Compadre
11. Nekta – Here’s us
12. No me voy a quedar sin bailar
13. Gabin – Doo uap
14. Club des Belugas – Puttin on the Ritz
15. Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing

DESCRIPTION

Ready to dance? I’ve put together a mix of great swing and Lindy hop to lift you from the blues. The Lindy Hop is a dance based on the popular Charleston. It’s a fine fusion of jazz beats and swing-out breaks. Named as a tribute to Charles Lindbergh‘s “hop” across the Atlantic 1927, it evolved in Harlem in the 1920s and ’30s. If you want to have a ball, and are into the swing revival, this is the collection for you.

Throughout the early 1990s, neo-swing was mostly an underground movement, though exposure through movies such as 1993′s Swing Kids and The Mask (whose hit soundtrack featured both Royal Crown Revue and the Brian Setzer Orchestra) introduced the genre to a wider audience. By the late 90s, retro swing’s popularity was increasing. The 1996 film Swingers, featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, became a cult classic.

In its development, the Lindy Hop combined both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of black dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances. This is most clearly illustrated in the Lindy’s basic step, the swingout. In this step’s open position, each dancer is generally connected hand-to-hand; in its closed position, men and women are connected as though in an embrace. Revived in the 1980s by American, Swedish, and British dancers, the Lindy Hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass roots organizations founded in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

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AUTHOR

Collection produced by Dr Michael Taylor (aka Patternizer) on 08 January 2011.