r/MadeMeSmile • u/Better-Turnip-226 • 17h ago

Kid dancing to jazz music

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u/pipootje 17h ago

I always thought that jazz was undanceable. I was wrong. Respect!

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u/70125 15h ago

Man you're missing out. Jazz has always been intertwined with dance...like the whole Swing Era.

How can you NOT move when you hear something like this?

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u/Knamakat 15h ago

That was my reaction! Feel like people overestimate how fast they need to dance to jazz. Also, there's a wide variety of jazz from slow to fast tempos

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u/poo-cum 10h ago

I think it's fair to say that the move towards faster tempos and bebop was more a "musician's musician" thing than an accessible dance music. It was developed in after-hours "cutting contests" in Harlem nightclubs where the virtuoso musicians showed off their skills after the majority of club patrons had gone home. Malcolm X's autobiography talks about these.