BROTHERHOOD IN RHYTHM. The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. Foreword by Gregory Hines
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed and inscribed in the year of publication on the title page. Here, is a biography of these two American masters of the dance, explosive, dazzling audiences with daredevil splits, slides, and hair-raising flips. They were also highly sophisticated dancers, refining a centuries old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith.There were Fayard and Harold Nichols, both are masterfully portrayed in this dual biography. From the Cotton Club appearances with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Jimmy Lunceford, to film-stealing big-screen performances with Chuck Webb, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. 320 pages illustrated from photographs. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Item #15100
ISBN: 0195131665
Price: $50.00