#jazz tap

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Hoctor - Superstition (Hoctor Records)

wrt. Stevie Wonder, Open Drums!

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Hoctor - Do It Again (Hoctor Records)

Open Drums, Steely Dan cover.

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Fred Astaire once said that this particular dance scene, from Stormy Weather, was the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film. The Nicholas Brothers, in a scene that was unrehearsed and caught in a single take, demonstrate a mastery of their craft (and a joy in their art) that is still breathtaking 80 years later.

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John Bubbles (19 February 1902-18 May 1986)

John Bubbles, born John Sublett (his nickname Bubber) in Louisville, Kentucky, is a jazz tap dancer, singer, and pianist. He is the undisputed father of rhythm tap, which dropped the heels on the offbeat, used the toes to accent, and extended rhythmic patterns beyond the usual eight bars of music.

Constance Valis Hill is the author of Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History. She recently composed a chronology of tap dance for the Library of Congress: “Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media.”

Image credit: Scene from motion picture "Cabin in the Sky," featuring Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, and singer and dancer John Bubbles, 1943. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. NYPL Digital Collections.

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It has been 20 years since I was in jazz tap class

But goddamn sometimes I really want to splurge on a pair of really good tap shoes.

Does anyone know if there exists a compromise between super quality and pricing that doesn't break the bank? I don't dance anymore but I would love to wear them around certain places.

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I wanna learn how to Jazz Tap.

I think it's pretty classy. And it looks like a lot of fun.