🎺 Stompin' At The Savoy, Harlem Hot Spot - Benny Goodman Quartet - King of Swing

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👑 Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Gene Krupa. Originally recorded in 1936. Composed by Edgar Sampson.
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- 'Stompin' at the Savoy' is a 1933 jazz standard composed by Edgar Sampson. It is named after the famed Harlem nightspot, the Savoy Ballroom in New York City..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stompin%27_at_the_Savoy
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- The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Ave., between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lenox Ave. was the main thoroughfare through upper Harlem.
Poet Langston Hughes calls it the "Heartbeat of Harlem" in Juke Box Love Song, and he set his work "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" on the legendary street.
The Savoy was one of many Harlem hot spots along Lenox, but it was the one to be called the "World's Finest Ballroom". It operated from March 12, 1926, to July 10, 1958. As Barbara Englebrecht writes in her article "Swinging at the Savoy," it was "a building, a geographic place, a ballroom, and the 'soul' of a neighborhood."

🎩 The Savoy Ballroom was named after the elegant, elite Savoy Hotel in London to give the NY club a classy, upscale image. The Harlem Savoy Ballroom was popular from the start. A headline from the NY Age March 20, 1926, reads "Savoy Turns 2,000 Away On Opening Night- Crowds Pack Ball Room All Week". The ballroom remained lit every night of the week... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy_Ballroom
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- Welcome to The Savoy is a project to reopen the doors of the now lost Savoy Ballroom, in an immersive experience at the crossroads of immersive theatre and virtual reality. We want to transport people to the Savoy, Harlem’s most captivating nightspot and one of the first integrated ballrooms in the US, to experience the thrills of swinging big bands, breathtaking dancers and jazz age glamour...
https://www.welcometothesavoy.com/