- Description
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Groundhog vs. Chuck Green Challenge Dance 1964 / Earl "Groundhog" Basie [challenge dance]
- Title
- Groundhog vs. Chuck Green Challenge Dance 1964 [Challenge Dance]
- Performers
- Basie, Earl "Groundhog"
- Green, Charles "Chuck"
- Rhythm Red
- Chaney, Lon
- Pepe, Gentleman
- Powell, Tommy
- Published/Created
- 1964-11-21
- Genre
- Challenge Dance
- Abstract
- On the evening of November 21, 1964, at the Village gate in New York City, jazz tappers Groundhog Basie and Chuck Green faced off in the fiercest tap challenge of their lives. Groundhog, strictly a hoofer, a dancer's dancer and the best that most had seen, challenged Chuck Green, protegé of the great John Bubbles. Jo Jones trio accompanied.
- Source
- Stearns, Marshall and Jean Stearns: Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Macmillan (1968).
- Balliett, Whitney: Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000. St. MartinÕs Press (2000).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015