Best of Ballroom Dancing

Warning: What I reviewed here is what is shown in the figure, it was released by EMI Gold, but if you order it here, it is not what you get!

Last year, Avid launched two CDs called Ballroom Dancing - The Essential Collection. From now on, the EMI Gold including three CDs including 74 tracks in the 1940s and 1950s has become even better. They invested in the net on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and covered a wide range of style and dance rhythms. Amazon lists titles only, so the bands involved are (in alphabetical order) Ray Anthony, Les Brown, Jan Garber, Geraldo, Nat Gonella, Kenny Goodman, Ken Hanna, Skitch Henderson, Woody Herman, Harry. James, Stan Kenton, Sydney · Lipton, Joe · Roth, Enric Madriguera, Ken · McIntosh, Billy · May, Lou Pleasure, Tommy Rogers, Edmund Roth, Harry · Roy, Jack Wallace and Eric Winston

A minor problem is that two songs from Nat Gonella have recently appeared in two albums of EMI Gold. EMI can easily access Nat's recording, so more care is needed to avoid unnecessary duplication. There is also a picture of Benny Goodman looking like Steve Allen who plays him in the biography of the movie.

Like most versions introduced here, most songs are familiar to people who have grown in the past few decades. In my opinion, one or more contemporary arrangements have failed to enhance the original melody (the extended version of "The Lover" by Les Brown is undoubtedly popular) is a minority There is no loss of the overall appeal of this set. Power, I like it very much. The sound quality is very good, the whole sound is spacious, the budget price is less than $ 30, you can recommend it with all my heart.

Traditional danzon, born in Havana and Matanzas social gatherings, is an elegant and sophisticated club's ballroom dance - but it got more active over time. Fast versions of the modern tempo are called danzonete and danzon-cha. All of Danzon's songs are composed of two parts: a short paseo and a long melody. During Paseo, dancers will not dance. They roamed around the dance floor, chatting, flirting, drinking ... anyway, they were dancing at the first beat of the melody. This is another early dance in Cuba. Initially, every son band was a group of six people. In the 1930s, a trumpet was added. In the 1940s and 1950s, these grew into a big band full of percussion and horn. My son made a dancing of Hambana's rumba and salsa. My son is a vibrant Cuban dance featuring accurate footwork and a dramatic pose.

The ballroom named by Mura Dehn in her documentary (today's Callrooming) is Lindy Hoppers' slow dance playing blues music in the Savoy Ballroom. It fulfills the need for Harlem for a slow, fluid but very rhythmic dance that shows a strong body movement that can not be achieved by the upright attitude of European ballroom dance. Fish tail is a type of exercise in which the butt is woven. Fishtail is from Africa, but it is considered obscene when dancing hands around the waist of a European partner. African dance contempt for physical contact