1981 MAX ROACH & tap dancer HAROLD NICHOLAS of the NICHOLAS BROTHERS
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This segment is from a television broadcast of a 1981 tribute to Duke Ellington that took place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Regarding the amazing talent of Harold Nicholas, here’s an interesting excerpt from Wikipedia:
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“A signature move was to leapfrog down a long, broad flight of stairs, while completing each step with a split. Its most famous performance formed the finale of the movie, Stormy Weather. Fred Astaire once told the brothers that the ’Jumpin’ Jive’ dance number in Stormy Weather was the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen. In that famous routine, the Nicholas Brothers leapt exuberantly across the orchestra’s music stands and danced on the top of a grand piano in a call and response act with the pianist.
Another signature move was to arise from a split without using the hands. Gre
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