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Album Review: Glenn Crytzer’s Savoy Seven – Uptown Jump | Lindypenguin

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Album Review: Glenn Crytzer’s Savoy Seven – Uptown Jump. Album Review: Glenn Crytzer’s Savoy Seven – Uptown Jump. May 7, 2015. Disclaimer: Glenn Crytzer asked me to do this review and would have given me a copy of the album for it, had I not already been on the kickstarter. Buy it on Bandcamp. You can also support Glenn on Patreon. On Trumpet (a regular at Mona’s who also plays with Baby Soda and Gordon Webster) Evan Arntzen. On drums (also plays with Baby Soda and Gordon Au). This has the effect of maki...

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The Twenty Most Watched Lindy Hop Videos | Lindypenguin

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The Twenty Most Watched Lindy Hop Videos. The Twenty Most Watched Lindy Hop Videos. May 30, 2014. Next year will be the 10th anniversary of YouTube and lindy hop on the platform has certainly come a long way since this. By my estimation lindy hop videos have been watched somewhere between 70 million and 200 million times on YouTube.* I thought I’d compile a list of the most watched swing dancing videos on YouTube. 1 Fast Swing Dancing – ULHS 2006. 8211; 6.9 million views. 8211; 4.0 million views. 8211; 2...

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lindypenguin: Swing DJ

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Assorted ramblings from a Gen Y swing dancer. I've been DJing for swing dances since 2008. I specialises in hot jazz from the 20s, big band swing from the 30s, 40s jump blues and modern bands that play in these styles. I've DJed regularly for dancers in Sydney, Australia and at many exchanges including:. The Sydney Lindy Exchange, Australia. Hullaballo, Perth, Australia. Devil City Swing, Hobart, Australia. Canberrang, Canberra, Australia. Jumptown Jam, Canberra, Australia. Hullaballo, Perth, Australia.

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lindypenguin: 5 Ways to put the Äwesome in Your Herräng

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Assorted ramblings from a Gen Y swing dancer. Thursday, 16 January 2014. 5 Ways to put the Äwesome in Your Herräng. So here's a few ideas both on and off the beaten path that might make your Herräng more Awesome. 1 - Research and Planning. There is no ATM (and occasionally other essentials) at the Kuggen (photo by Ralf Brown. Also make sure you check out the Friday Night Parties. For costume ideas. A great resource are friends and people in your scene who have been recently, there's also the forums.

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A Lindy Hop Bibliography | Lindypenguin

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A Lindy Hop Bibliography. A Lindy Hop Bibliography. October 5, 2014. Updated for works published in 2015]. SwingNation featured a new thesis on the Savoy Ballroom on a recent show. And it led me to wonder what other scholarly work on Lindy Hop is out there. So I went looking. Many of these are behind the paywalls of academic journals. Series which I would say probably has the same (or more) amount of work found in a typical masters thesis. Giordano, Ralph G. 2006. Social Dancing in America: A His...Keali...

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lindypenguin: May 2014

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Assorted ramblings from a Gen Y swing dancer. Saturday, 31 May 2014. The Twenty Most Watched Lindy Hop Videos. Next year will be the 10th anniversary of YouTube and lindy hop on the platform has certainly come a long way since this. By my estimation lindy hop videos have been watched somewhere between 70 million and 200 million times on YouTube.* I thought I'd compile a list of the most watched swing dancing videos on YouTube. There'll be plenty on this list that's familiar - and maybe some that aren't:.

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lindypenguin: June 2013

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Assorted ramblings from a Gen Y swing dancer. Tuesday, 18 June 2013. Yeah, swing dancing is sexist. So what are you going to do about it? Sexism and misogyny in Australia has been in the news of late (in case you're not from here or have been hiding under a rock). There's also been a whole lot of new discussion in the Lindy Hop community about the nature of sexism in our community. See on blogs for example here. Or on multiple stalkerplant threads e.g. here. Dance more with men. This is one I'm getting b...

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Jazz Song Alphabet Archives - Swing DJ Resources

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Where Lindy Hop, Balboa, Shag and Blues DJs connect. SONG OF THE WEEK. Tips & Tricks. How To Swing DJ. You are here: Home. Jazz Song Alphabet Vol. 27 – by Bill Speidel. June 27, 2013. After a break of two months, we've got a new Jazz Song Alphabet by Bill to share. He wrote: "I cheated on the X and got all the artists as well other than Q; but I'll argue that Sidney is playing with his Quartet so it counts. :)" 26 Swing Songs by Bill Speidel, Norfolk, … [Read more.]. Filed Under: Jazz Song Alphabet.

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Song Of The Week Archives - Swing DJ Resources

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Where Lindy Hop, Balboa, Shag and Blues DJs connect. SONG OF THE WEEK. Tips & Tricks. How To Swing DJ. You are here: Home. Archives for Song Of The Week. DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #260: I’ve Found A New Baby [End of the Series]. February 28, 2015. Song Of The Week. Tagged With: DJ Chrisbe. DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #259: Four Or Five Times. February 20, 2015. Did I feature this song four or five times so far? Song Of The Week. Tagged With: Count Basie. February 13, 2015. In my early years as a DJ...