[Dixielandjazz] The center of the dance world

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Today's selection -- from *Kansas City Lightening* by Stanley Crouch. In
1941, in Harlem, just around the corner from the Great Black Way, stood the
center of the dance and big band world -- the Savoy Ballroom:

"The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem [was] perhaps the most famous dance hall in
the nation. ... That was where the heavyweight battles of the bands took
place, where [a band] made it or lost it. There were no judges, in the
strictest sense, working the Savoy; that work was done by the dancers who
came intending to party the night away, twirling and bucking and stuffing
and pivoting and bending and putting rhythmic spins on the balls of their
feet for swirling combinations of steps that counterpointed the slippings
and slidings of their partners, each couple a pair of torsos inspired to
elasticity by the swing of the band with the strongest beat. ...

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 *Frankie Manning and Ann Johnson at the Savoy Ballroom in 1941.*

"[It was around the corner from] Seventh Avenue and 141st Street. This part
of Seventh Avenue was known as Black Broadway, 'the Great Black Way.' It
was the widest boulevard in Harlem and the scene of the neighborhood's
famous Easter Parade, which Kansas City bandleader Andy Kirk called 'the
most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life.' Here was where the cream of
the crop and the cream of the crooks showed off their taste and their
finery or attempted to bring some polish to the scurrilous ways in which
they made their livings. The bulk of those seen on that thoroughfare
personified the viscous vitality of the music -- a beauty so rich it stuck
to the mind. The skin tones of the residents rambled the gamut, inspiring
the Negro people to say of their race that it was like a flower garden,
including 'everything from lily-white to blue-black.' There were Negroes
from all over the world there, some from as far as Africa. The aristocracy
of taste and individual grandeur set styles and walked heads up, sometimes
in creme-colored shoes, sometimes in suede, sometimes in alligators or
leather soft as the proverbial baby's ass. They seemed the royalty of their
race. ...

"The Savoy was owned by two Polish Jews, the brothers Moses and Charles
Galewski, who had changed their surname to Gale. Opened in 1926, the dance
hall was fronted by manager Charlie Buchanan, an uptown real estate agent
who played owner and supplied the Negro mask for the public window.

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 *The Savoy*

"The Savoy was built for continual ritual. Inside its mammoth dance hall,
two bandstands stood side by side, so that as soon as one band's set was
over, the next could pick up without a pause. The music went on from nine
until two. The Savoy had become the dance hall in New York -- because of
the bands that played there, but also because of its customers, whose
reactions to the bandstand rhythms set standards for style, giving rise to
dance steps that would spread across the nation. As the Savoy grew in fame
and popularity, its clientele spread to include rich whites, movie stars,
visiting Europeans, and Negroes from out of town who came to find out what
all the noise was about.

"[Bands in rehearsal at the Savoy would] set up their music stands and
drums, got the bass in place, and soon they could hear the illusory sound
of the hall -- a sound that would change so much once so many bodies had
crowded into the room, absorbing their notes, adding sound of their own.
You had to play two or three or four times louder during a show than you
did in a light rehearsal."

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Author: Stanley Crouch
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Copyright 2013 by Stanley Crouch
Pages 8, 9, 12-14

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