'If you want to know about the venues, about a dizzying array of briefly flaring dance crazes, or the music that drew the dancers, you’ll find all that here, brought together from extensive research'
New review in UK Jazz News by Jon Turney
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Bruce Lindsay – ‘Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs – From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque’ - UK Jazz News
A glamorous opening night in November 1919 saw 5,800 paying customers at the new Hammersmith Palais (or Palais de Danse, because it was a classy joint). A few nights later, the Original Dixieland Jazz...
