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Brotherhood in rhythm : the jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas Brothers

Tap dance innovators and stars Harold and Fayard Nicholas are the focus of this biography that not only tells of their performances with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway and their many appearances in films, but also examines their choreographic contributions to the art form of tap.
Print Book, English, 2002
1st Cooper Square Press ed View all formats and editions
Cooper Square Press, New York (N.Y.), 2002
Biography
xxvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780815412151, 0815412150
50308163
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Born into jazz
Brothers (1914-1931)
Blackbirds in New York (1932-1934)
All-colored comedy (1934-1936)
Babes on Broadway (1936-1938)
Class act and challenge (1938-1945)
Forties swing, Hollywood flash (1940-1945)
Converging styles (1942-1945)
Swing to bop (1945-1958)
Nostalgia, and all that jazz (1964-1989)