Example Jazz Dance Videos
If you haven't seen them, please check out the video entries from the last contest: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8D5348749223C869.
Here is last year's winning entry, Spread the Rhythm:
There are a large number of videos on YouTube and Google Video which are great examples of the Soundies and Snader Telescriptions and movie shorts and snippets in which jazz dancing was incorporated. Below are a few of these examples.
Ain't Misbehavin'
- Source: Soundies (DVD - contains Fats Waller, Count Basie, Lucky Millinder, and others)
- Music: Fats Waller
Hellzapoppin'
- Source: The movie "Hellzapoppin"
- Music: Slim & Slam; Unknown Studio Orchestra
- Dancers: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
Take Me Back, Baby
- Source: Soundies (DVD - contains Fats Waller, Count Basie, Lucky Millinder, and others)
- Music: Count Basie
- Singer: Jimmy Rushing
Red Hot Heat - 1937
- Source: The movie "Vogues of 1938"
- Music: Maurice Rocco
- Tap Dancing: Four Hot Shots
- Chorus Girls: The Cotton Club Singers
CartoonI've Got My Fingers Crossed
- Source: The movie "King of Burlesque"
- Music: Fats Waller & His Rhythm
- Tap dancing: Dixie Dunbar
The Jumpin' Jive
- Source: The movie "Stormy Weather"
- Music: Cab Calloway
- Tap Dancers: The Nicholas Brothers
Frankie and Johnny
- Source: The movie Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
- Dancers: Cyd Charisse & John Crascia
- Song/Narration: Sammy Davis Junior
Barflies
- Source: Video Competition Entry (Melbourne, Australia)
- Director: Josh McKiterick