Big band jazz grew up in the nightclubs and dance halls of New York and Chicago as high-energy dance music. The zenith of jazz dancing was the jitterbug, igniting the wild enthusiasm of dance-crazed youth in the 1930s. This concert features the hottest hits from the world’s greatest dance bands—Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Goodman. Two award-winning pairs of dancers will kick up their heels on stage alongside SRJO to showcase the jitterbug and other swingin’ dance styles of early jazz (such as the Lindy Hop, East Coast Swing and the Balboa). Selections include Basie’s Swingin’ the Blues, Goodman’s Swing Time in the Rockies and Henderson’s Big John’s Special.