Thousands of Deco structures -- hotels and theaters, apartment blocks and luxury villas -- are still standing, evoking the days when ocean liners anchored off Shanghai and European and Chinese grandees mingled with movie stars and gangsters in the city's jazz clubs and dance halls.
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Brubeck took California's "West Coast Cool" school and with mathematical intellection removed it even further from the sweaty dance rhythms of jazz gone by: The album's compositions were in tricky, decidedly dance-averse time signatures.
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One finding: The "Sound Charge" shirts collected more energy with dance music than jazz or classical, says Mat Sears, a spokesman for Orange parent company Everything Everywhere.
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He recently won the Jazz Journalists Association's Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for writing in 2011.
It grew into a tradition centered on dance and paired with jazz bands of the popular music of the era.
The brilliant "Night Beat" (1957) represented the most fully realized blend of Afro-Latin dance rhythms and North American jazz that had yet been attempted.
But as the handclapping gave way to a percolating, polyrhythmic mix of funk, Afrobeat and electric jazz, the crowd migrated to the dance floor from a downstairs bar.
Just across the street is Maison, where the jazz line up is supplemented by plenty of local dance DJs and indie rock talent.
On one side was a blues and on the other a dance number two forms that jazz would rely on for decades to come.
According to the Ken Burns documentary Jazz, they would sing, play music and dance, swaying back and forth to the songs of their home countries.
Coleman has written music outside of the jazz realm, including string quartets, music for dance, woodwind quintets, and in the early 1970s, a symphony called Skies of America, composed with support from his Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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With strong roots in the tradition of improvisation, jazz continues to evolve, collecting accents from Afropop, Latin dance music, eastern classical music, and pretty much every other music it comes into contact with, all while transforming other genres around the world.
Teachers and administrators have told me that demand for musical-theater training has risen steadily in the last 10 to 15 years: applications to college programs are increasing, and dance schools have seen musical-theater workshops overtake traditional jazz classes in popularity.
Mr. Alterman's continually evolving presence on the jazz scene surely makes people smile and, if the room is right, dance.
In the late 1890s, syncopation joined with soulful melodies, upbeat dance tunes united with the sultry sound of brass instruments, and jazz began to emerge.
From tap to ballet to jazz to modern to hip hop and B-Boy styles, there are a million variations of dance that allow performers to express themselves.
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