A hundred year old fiery jazz is completely hot again

Maybe it was already on your list: a vintage jazz evening, as they keep it in the compass room in Amsterdam, for example. Where young jazz bands like The Fried Seven Steaming hot jazz battles against The Roaring Cats. Where with competitive playing fun on traditional instruments such as Cornet, Klarinet or Banjo, they compete against each other in elegant costumes. Where the New York swing romanticism of the 1920s is embraced in a steaming room full of dancing Lindyhoppers.

It is the never deaf love for ‘Trads’ (traditionals) about a hundred years ago. And don’t think about matured, at fair and staff party thranting music … but feel the hip, stuck in retro clothing, especially with the way for a while Extriving Partner Dance Lindyhop.

A great inspiration for the current Swingjazzzeving: the Savoy Ballroom Battles, 1920s, New York. In that dance hall, the House band of drummer Chick Webbwith his mini post hour a large band leader in Swing, regularly challenged. As in 1937, when Webb took on the orchestra of Benny Goodman. Two swing kings at their sharpest for a crowded room. Anyone who missed notes in the orchestra did not have to come back.

What are we talking about?

Traditional jazz leans on standards from the Great American Songbook, (1920-50). So for Hotjazz or Swingjazz we go back a hundred years ago. Artists such as King Oliver (‘The Jazz King’ from New Orleans) and his Protegé from Chicago, trumpet player Louis Armstrong. Or pianist Jelly Roll Morton. They brought swing in the dance halls with their orchestras. African-American Lindyhop prevailing there, perhaps the most famous swing dance, evolved from the Charleston, Tapdans and the Hotjazz.

An iconic collection point (1920-1930) also formed the New York jazz club Cotton Club. Large African-American names of that time such as Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway performed. But the club itself was only open to a white audience, which sharpened the social and racial relationships.

How does it sound?

Hot! Either fast rhythms and an exciting, often improvising playing style with lyrical blazers. Has the Early New Orleans jazz, better known as Dixieland, a different character-a harmonious fusion of Ragtime, Blues and the lively traditions of the Marching bands from the New Orleans region-more fiery can be found in just a little later Swingjazz/Hotjazz.