Jive – is the least known of the ball 10 to form a program of racing. Of Latin origin, is confused over and over again with Rock & Roll, even by those who are already inside the world of ballroom dance. And is that Jive is a combination of the rhythms with other rhythms which led to the popular Rock.

Therefore, a Jive “sounds” a lot to Rock (It’s also true that the labels, with their mixtures, have not done anything but create further confusion). The Jive is a fast dance with a lively and dynamic character (but not to the “festival” of samba). The main feeling that transmits a pair of dancing Jive agility, since even without acrobatic elements, the figures of the Jive are a real show of skill and balance.

Charles Mingus was an American jazz bassist, composer, conductor, and an occasional pianist. He was also known as an activist against racial injustice.

Born April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, but grew up in the Watts area in Los Angeles, California. His family background was Swedish and African Americans by their paternal grandparents, Chinese and British nationalities, and from his maternal grandparents. Despite this, he grew up in a strict family and discriminatory.

His mother died just six months after birth due to a chronic myocarditis, with Mingus Hospital by a half and allowed only Amerindian music related to the church at home, so Charles had his first contacts with music The Church of Holiness Church in Watts. Despite this, he developed an early affection for jazz, especially the music of Duke Ellington. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay Munly (also credited as Munly and Munly Munly) is a musician, composer and guitarist from Denver, Colorado.Es one of the greatest exponent of the so-called “Denver Sound” music that blends elements of country, gospel and Gothic. He is a member of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and the Denver Broncos UK, as well as the guitarist in his own banda Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots. Read the rest of this entry »

Ennio Morricone (Rome, Italy, November 10, 1928 -), Italian composer of music.

Small college buddy was Sergio Leone with whom later collaborated on almost all their films until his death. After college, he entered the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome where he studied trumpet and composition. His film career began in the 60s and is still active, making it one of today’s most prolific composers, with some 500 works to his credit. Read the rest of this entry »

Paso Doble – Spanish march rhythm in 2 / 4 allegro moderato and time, often in minor key, used indiscriminately for military parades and bullfighting. In the 1920s became popular as a dance and many of them have lyrics. Is a fundamental part of the repertoire of the bands are very typical of Spain and the pasodobles toreros, being devoted to prominent figures taurinas. Suele consist of a first period, as an introduction on the dominant chord, followed by the section important, the main tone. Read the rest of this entry »

Rumba – This dance was born in Cuba for more than a century to the late nineteenth century, as an heir to the Spanish bolero, but with its own musical characteristics. One of the characteristics that define their lyrics are kind of romantic bolero doing a dance associated with the feelings and very sensual. In the traditional bolero is the total fusion of Afro Cuban and Hispanic factors, which are alike in the accompanying guitar on the melody. Already in the second decade of this century, the traditional bolero evolves. Slowly start lamusicalizacion composers of verses of poets known. Read the rest of this entry »

Cha-Cha-Cha – was created by the Cuban violinist and conductor Enrique Jorrin in 1948, the result of his experiments with form, melody and rhythm of the danzon. Dance is incorporated into the newest form of Latin dance. Shortly after the Mambo was introduced in the dance halls, was the cha-cha-cha, which began to gain increasing popularity. This rapid and wide distribution is due mainly to being a dance intermediate, not too slow nor too fast, making it a genre easily danceable by all (as opposed, for example, in Mambo, where the music faster pace and more complicated). Read the rest of this entry »

Samba – from Brazil, where it is the national dance. Its origins are to be found among the groups of slaves brought from Africa. Popular dance forms and Afro-Brazilian music that has become world-famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Its popularity in this country is so big that it has reached serdeclarado national dance of Brazil. To achieve the real character of the Samba, the dancer has to play with the girl and be very rich. Many of the figures currently used in the Samba requires a precise movement of the pelvis. Read the rest of this entry »

Viennese Waltz – its origins date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and are in the dance called “Nachtanz. The first Viennese waltz melodies dating from 1770. It was introduced in Paris in 1775, but spent some time before it became popular. In 1813, Mr. Byron condemned the Viennese Waltz as a dance immoral. In 1816 the Viennese Waltz was accepted in England, but there was the rejection of this dance in certain sectors. In 1833, a book of “good behavior” was published by Miss Celbart and agree with this, only allowing married women to dance this dance. Read the rest of this entry »

English Waltz (Slow Waltz) – (the German Walzer, ‘turn’), an elegant couple dancing on a bar of 3 / 4, and the name of the music for this dance.  The first of the three parts of the rhythm of the waltz (in music as in dance) had a strong impulse propellant, followed by two steps weaker, the latter pushed back to the first. Born around 1800 in central Europe, and their rapid whirling of couples who were holding in an embrace shocked the society of his time. Became the dance for excellence in the nineteenth century and maintained his position even after the introduction of jazz in the twentieth century. Created many variants, including Viennese waltz, very elegant and lively and fast-paced, popularized in the mid-nineteenth century by the Viennese composers Johann Strauss Strauss father and son, known as the kings of the waltz. There were the Boston, with slippery moves and steps, and the vals criollo of South America, which is usually danced with heels and tap coups. The waltz of the nineteenth century were much faster than those of the twentieth century, which vary from medium to very slow speed. Read the rest of this entry »