I am a dancer & choreographer, based in London. I specialise in dances from the 1920s to 1950s. I dance Swing, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues & Burlesque.
DJ Set: Rockin’ in Rhythm, Dublin Ireland, April 2010
Photos: Red Nichols (left), Bob Howard (right)
At The Clambake Carnival, Cab Calloway, 186 bpm Nice Work If You Can Get It, Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra with Billie Holiday, 1937, 165 bpm You’ve Got To Give Me Some, Clarence Williams, 185 bpm Ballin’ The Jack, Red Nichols, 131 bpm Dark Rapture, Count Basie with Helen Humes, 1938, 161 bpm I’ll Always Be In Love With You, Horace Henderson & His Orchestra, 1940, 175 bpm Getting Some Fun Out Of Life, Billie Holiday, 1937, 113 bpm I’m Living In A Great Big Way, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, 1935, 168 bpm Exactly Like You, Don Redman & His Orchestra, 1937, 154 bpm I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby, Louis Armstrong, 1955, 163 bpm Swingmatism, Jay McShann & His Orchestra, 1941, 178 bpm Cross Patch, Fats Waller, 139 bpm Spring Cleaning, Bob Howard, 171 bpm Roses of Picardy, Tchavolo Schmitt, 2005, 124 bpm The Good Drag (Gone Wid de Goon), Sam Price & His Texas Blusicians, 139 bpm Little Jazz, Roy Eldridge, 1945, 145 bpm Fan It, Red Nichols, 181 bpm Shorty’s Got To Go, Lucky Millinder, 1946, 146 bpm Coleslaw, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 1949, 136 bpm G-Men, Cootie Williams & His Orchestra, 1941, 162 bpm Ridin’ and Jivin’, Earl Hines, 1939, 150 bpm Blue Drag, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grapelli, 114 bpm