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• Al Minns "One of the great dancers of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, Al Minns was an energetic dancer with a wild, crazy-leg style reminiscentof “Long-Legged George” Grenidge. Minns was in Whitey’s top group, known as The Harlem Congaroos and appeared in the feature film Hellzapoppin’ and in the popular soundie Hot Chocolates. As the youngest dancer in this group, he was particularly fit and flexible. On the initial backstep of his swingout, he formed a striking horizontal plane.
  
  Minns went on to have a long uninterrupted career as a jazz and Lindy Hop dancer. He and fellow Whitey’s dancer Leon James toured all over the USA with jazz historian Marshall Stearns and had many TV appearances. In the early 1980s, he was invited by Sandra Cameron and Larry Schulz to teach Lindy Hop to a new generation of young dancers at Sandra Cameron Studios in New York and was also invited to teach in Stockholm, Sweden by Lennart Westerlund."
  from frankiemanning.org Al Minns
• Benny Goodman Known to most of America as the "King of Swing", Benny Goodman was hugely popular during the Big Band era. He came from humble beginnings in Chicago and eventually became of the greatest swing bandleaders ever. His concert at Carnegie Hall was described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Aside from his immensely popular orchestra, Goodman's small group was one of the first and certainly the most popular mixed race jazz group in the United States.
  from Wikipedia Benny Goodman