[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Dance "Mash-Up"

[David Richoux]

Hi all,

If you remember back a few months on this list about a "mash-up" that  
took a ragtime song and made it mix with an Eminem rap song - I just  
found a video that mixes the famous jazz dancers Al Minns & Leon  
James (with computer generated "new moves") to a hip-hop song, at a  
'60s Playboy Mansion party!

Ain't computers fun?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? 
fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=593402085&Mytoken=BF27E528- 
B763-9B5A-B2ED151AB7295B541625146
or http://tinyurl.com/jbtbw

and for another un-mashed Al Minns & Leon James dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjSLzlEhnC0&search=lindyhop

I am sure that the Nicholas Brothers, Al & Leon and many other jazz  
dancers would have been "Break Dancing" with all the kids if they had  
made it to this era ;-) BTW, this style has been going on for more  
than 30 years - is it "traditional" yet?

Dave Richoux