THIS WEEK IN SWING - October
30, 2009
CASH'D OUT live TONIGHT at JNO!
Only $12 at the door...show time 8:45!
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UPCOMING NOTABLE EVENTS
10/30 - TONIGHT! Cash'd Out live
at JNO - get tickets at JNO!
11/06 to 08 - Iowa Lindy
Blizzard, Des Moines IA
11/13 - Creighton Night at JNO -
Creighton students with i.d. $3.00
11/27 - UNO Night at JNO - U of N
system students with i.d. $3.00
12/04 - UNO Big Band live at JNO
12/18 - Holiday Party at JNO
12/31 - Omaha Jitterbugs New
Year's Party
DANCES and SHOWS
Friday 10/30 - Cash'd Out live at
Jitterbugs Night Out. - Eagles Ballroom, 24th and Douglas. Doors open at 7:45;
band starts at 8:45.
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Monday 10/12 - Big Band Monday
featuring the Omaha Big Band - Ozone, 7220 F Street - Live music from 7:00pm to
9:30. Free but buying something is definitely encouraged; 18 and over.
CLASSES and WORKSHOPS
Upcoming:
Friday October 15th –
7pm Balboa Basics Workshop with Nate and Christy. This one hour workshop will
cover the basic steps for Balboa. No partner or experience required! Eagles 24th
and Douglas. (one hour; $10. Includes admission to Jitterbugs Night Out.)
Saturday October 16th
– 11am Balboa Now! with Nate and Christy. 11am to 3pm. This workshop will cover
the basics of Balboa in two 90 minute sessions. No partner or experience
required, though knowledge of basic swing rhythms and concepts helpful. Eagles,
24th and Douglas Streets. Three hours;$25 / $20 with student ID.)
Wednesday, November 4th
– 7pm Intro to Swing with Nate and Christy. La Vista Community Center. No
partner or experience required.. (4 weeks, $40)
Wednesday November 4th
– 8pm Advanced Swing. This course will address advanced patterns and concepts
for swing dancing. Experience with six and eight count Lindy basics and
Charleston essential. Parner not required but helpful. La Vista Community
Center. (4 weeks, $40).
Friday, November 6th –
7pm Lindy Hop I with Nate and Christy. Eagles Ballroom, 24th and
Douglas. No partner or experience required; knowledge of basic six count swing
helpful. (4 weeks, $40 – includes admission to JNO!)
Wednesday, December 2nd
- 7pm Charleston Routine with Christy and Nate. La Vista Community Center. This
class will meet for three two-hour sessions. We’ll learn a routine that we’ll
perform at the Christmas party December 18th. Some experience with
swing dancing and Charleston basics will be very helpful; partner helpful but
not required. (Three weeks, $50)
Saturday, December 12th
- 11am Charleston in a Hurry with Christy and Nate. Eagles, 24th and
Douglas. This three hour workshop will cover the basics of partnered
Charleston. Beginning level; some swing dancing experience very helpful.
Partner not required. (Three hours, $25 / $20 with student id.)
Wednesday, January 8th
- 7pm Intro to Swing with Nate and Christy. La Vista Community Center. Great
for beginners; no experience or partner necessary! (4 weeks, $40)
Wednesday, January 8th
- 8pm Extreme Lindy Hop Makeover with Nate and Christy. This class will focus
on technique and extremity for Lindy Hop. The swing out should be familiar
territory; partner nice but not required. (Four weeks, $40.)
Friday, January 15th
-Balboa with Nate and Christy. This class will cover the basics of Balboa at an
accelerated pace. Balboa experience not necessary; partner optional. Eagles
Ballroom. (Three weeks, $30. Includes admission to JNO.)
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Greetings, Jitterbugs!
Omaha Jitterbugs is proud to
present Cash’d Out - a tribute to Johnny Cash, live at Jitterbugs Night Out
tonight! Cash’d Out is the only tribute band endorsed by the Cash estate. This
is going to be a fantastic night of music and dancing! Tickets are $12 at the
door, upstairs at the Eagles Ballroom downtown. Halloween costumes are welcome,
or dress in black! Doors open at 7:45; live music starts at 8:45. For a little
preview of what you can expect, visit cashdout.com or follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3WOzBOxDQ&feature=related
Coming up in just two weeks is the
third annual Iowa Lindy Blizzard, a very cool swing dance weekend put on by our
good friends Larry and Rae Mullica from Step Into Swing! That’s next Friday
November 6 through Sunday the 8th in Des Moines, Iowa. There will be great live
music Friday and Saturday nights, a Jack and Jill contest, and sixteen hours of
workshops over two tracks! Instructors include the amazing Laura Keat and
Jeremy Oth, and Cowtown Jamborama favorites Kim Clever, David Frutos, and our
shag-a-riffic friends from Minneapolis, Bill and Shannon Butler! This will be a
very enjoyable weekend; I'm planning on going, and you should too! For more
information, visit the official website - http://www.stepintoswing.com/iowalindyblizzard/.
Jitterbugs Night Out will not be
held on Christmas Day nor on New Year’s Day.
If you aren't a friend of Omaha
Jitterbugs on MySpace and Facebook, do log on and join us. There are some great
photos on both sites. Also, for more hot OJ photo and video clip action, check
out Cliff Crowell's pics at http://dancerman.smugmug.com.
Cliff is the most consistent documentarian of the Omaha swing scene, posting
new photos after almost every Omaha Jitterbugs event.
This week in swing, jazz, and
rock & roll history:
October 30, 1930 – Trumpeter
Clifford Brown born. 1940 – Count Basie records What’s Your Number?
featuring Lester Young. 1945 – Henry “The Fonz” Winkler born. 1961 – Phil
Spector’s “Phillies” label releases its first single, Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby
by the Crystals. 1964 – Roy Orbison’s Oh Pretty Woman goes gold.
October 31, 1896 – Actress and
singer Ethel Waters born. 1922 – Saxophonist Illinois Jacquet born. 1930 –
Saxophonist Booker Erwin born. 1937 – Folkie Tom Paxton born. 1942 – The second
“Harlem Hit Parade” is published by Billboard. Freddie Slack’s Mr.
Five By Five is at #1. 1960 – Dance historian Lance Benishek
born. 1965 – Wayne Fontana leaves the Mindbenders.
November 1, 1947 – Eddy Arnold’s I’ll
Hold You in My Heart begins a 21-week run at the top of the US country
chart. Money, Money by the Drifters enters the R&B chart en route to
#1. 1959 – Bassist Charlie Mingus records Mingus Dynasty with Jimmy
Knepper, Booker Erwin, Roland Hanna and others. 1962 – The Beatles open a
fourteen night run at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. 1968 – George Harrison
becomes the first Beatle to release a solo album with his Wonderful Music LP.
1969 – Elvis Presley hits #1 in the US for the last time with Suspicious
Minds.
November 2, 1908 – Trumpeter
Bunny Berrigan born. 1931 – Saxophonist Phil Woods born. 1937 – Earl “Speedo”
Carroll (the Cadillacs) born. 1937 – Jay Traynor of Jay and the Americans born.
1940 – Alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges records Billy Strayhorn’s song Daydream.
1966 – Bluesman Mississippi John Hurt dies. 1956 – Bowing to public demand,
London Records finally releases a Little Richard single in the UK (Rip It
Up.) 1961 – Dion’s Runaround Sue hits the UK chart.
November 3, 1935 – Bassist Henry
Grimes born. 1940 – Fats Waller records Your Feet’s Too Big. 1948 –
Marie Lawrence, aka “Lulu” born. 1957 – Sonny Rollins records a live session at
the Village Vanguard, NYC, with drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Wilbur Ware.
1957 – Elvis Presley places a record eight singles in the UK top 30
simultaneously: Party (#3), Teddy Bear (#11), All Shook Up
(#17), Got a Lot of Livin’ to Do (#19), Trying to Get to You
(#21), Loving You (#24), Paralyzed (#26), and Lawdy Miss
Clawdy (#30). 1957 – Sun Records releases Great Balls of Fire by
Jerry Lee Lewis. 1957 – Danny and the Juniors release At the Hop. 1961 –
Jimmie Rogers is unanimously elected the first member of the Country Music Hall
of Fame.
November 4, 1906 – Pianist Joe
Sullivan born. 1931 – Louis Armstrong records Hoagy Charmichael’s song Stardust.
1931 - Ike Turner born. 1940 – Delbert McLinton born. 1947 – Charlie Parker
records Klactoveedsedstene with drummer Max Roach. 1957 – Jackie Wilson
debuts on the US charts with Reet Petite. 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his
concert hall debut at Carnegie Hall, NYC. The evening is not a success, with
only 50 people attending. 1963 – The Beatles appear on the Royal Variety Show,
with the queen in attendance. John Lennon introduces their final song (Twist
and Shout) by asking for people in the cheap seats to clap, and everybody
else to “rattle their jewelry.” 1966 – The Beach Boys Good Vibrations
enters the charts. 1991 – Bobby Bland, Booker T. and the MG’s, Johnny Cash,
Jimi Hendrix, the Isley Brothers, Same & Dave, and the Yardbirds are elected
to the Rock and R oll Hall of Fame.
November 5, 1936 – Ella
Fitzgerald records Goodnight, My Love with Benny Goodman’s band. 1937 –
Jimmy Lunceford’s band records Sy Oliver’s version of Annie Laurie
featuring Trummy Young. 1942 – Art Garfunkel born. 1954 – Oran “Hot Lips” Page
dies. 1956 – Pianist Art Tatum dies. 1960 – Country star Johnny Horton dies.
1977 – Elvis Costello debuts on the UK chart. 1988 – The Beach Boys hit #1 in
the US with Kokomo. This establishes new records for longest span of #1
hits (24 years, 4 months since their first, I Get Around) and longest
span between #1 hits (21 years, 10 months since Good Vibrations.) 1988 –
Kylie Minogue’s version of The Locomotion becomes the first song to
reach the top 5 for three different artists (and in three different decades,)
having previously reached #1 for Little Eva in 1962 and Grand Funk Railroad in
1974.
TRIVIA
The person sending the best
response to nate@jitterbugs.org will
receive $5 in Jitterbucks at the next Jitterbugs' Night Out. Put
"trivia" in the subject line. Ties will be broken by time of receipt.
Last week's question: A well
known and very cool big-band arranger was born in the same town that claims the
invention of Kool-Aid. For five jitterbucks, name the arranger, and the town.
Neil Hefti was born in Hastings, Nebraska in 1922. Among other achievements, he
did the arrangements for Count Basie's classic and easily recommended album Atomic
Basie. Congratulations to Marie Maly who won the jitterbucks this week!
This weeks question: On December
31, 2010, the United States Navy Winter Blue uniform will be phased out of
service. Why would that fact appear in this week’s Trivia question?
See you on the dance floor!
Peace,
Nate Woodhams
executive director
Omaha Jitterbugs
www.jitterbugs.org
This message was sent by: Omaha Jitterbugs, PO Box 27618, Omaha, NE 68127-0618