The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center offers classes in dance,music theory,theater and history.
VOA: special.2010.10.08
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.
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.
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.