The Influence Of Jazz On Figure Skating

[Maofan7]

When compared with other music genre's (e.g. classical, musicals, opera, ballet, popular, etc), jazz, swing, big band, bebop, etc, has had slightly less of an influence on figure skating. Nevertheless, quite a number of programs have been developed and choreographed around the work of many of the great jazz artists. Here are some examples:-

Glenn Miller

Original Music: In The Mood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyxKJD-52Po), Moonlight Serenade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ru6G7Z42Q4), Pennsylvania 6-5000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OUkNOwpXtc), Chattanooga Choo Choo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPNWDf6g9DE), A String of Pearls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfF23y5us)

Scott Hamilton - In The Mood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3BHlwEW3w)

Meryl Davis & Charlie White - 2003/04 Short Dance (Pennsylvania 6-5000) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98im_b86n6M)

Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani - 2011/12 Free Dance (2011 GPF) (Sun Valley Serenade - featuring In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, & Chattanooga Choo Choo) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taTL0BGnFos)

Duke Ellington

Original Music: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg), Take the "A" Train (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRbEhLj540), In a Sentimental Mood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mszSoTNqH3Y), Vortex from The River Suite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4o0l9WLNk)

Tomáš Verner - 2012/13 Free Program (2012 TEB) (It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWbZJAAT4s)

Jill Trenary - 1986 Olympic Festival LP (Vortex from The River Suite) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hn1EJrHlhM)

Louis Armstrong

Original Music: What A Wonderful World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM), Mack The Knife (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgYgl4OodeY), When Your Smiling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOH_mioL3TU), Summertime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voek71m-yf8)

Kurt Browning - 1989 World Championships - Gala (What A Wonderful World) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiWEtVKaNAA)

Alexei Yagudin - 1998 Olympics - Gala (Play it Again Sachmo + Mack the Knife) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0N6aLyYzHo)

Yannick Ponsero - 2009 European Championships LP (Summmertime, Porgy & Bess) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTmfanhMIqI)

Miles Davis

Original Music: Kind of Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB669XXjnUg), Conchita/Lament from Siesta (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Ez3IzLhX0)

Nancy Kerrigan - 1992 Olympics FS (Conchita/Lament from Siesta) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0C9V_U6wZ0)

Count Basie

Original Music: Swingin' the Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAko7E)

Silvia Monti - Italian Championships 2010/2011 - SP (Walkin' Proud) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95G2JKj5FqM)

Ella Fitzgerald

Original Music: Cry Me A River (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAoABuJS1MA)

Kiira Korpi - European Figure Skating Championships 2011 - Gala (Cry Me A River) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpsXqeTuYLY)

Billie Holiday

Original Music: God Bless The Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVvQ0v13Fg)

Stephen Carriere - 2007 Junior World Championships - FS (God Bless The Child) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZgNjPODc4)

Benny Goodman

Original Music: Sing Sing Sing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM)

Rachael Flatt - 2010 Olympics - SP (Sing Sing Sing) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdCdUX6Wf8)

So, what are your favourite jazz music inspired figure skating programs? If you can, please provide YouTube links to them

[NadineWhite]

Another wonderful informative thread started by you, Maofan7, thanks! :)

I was just headed to bed after a bout of insomnia, but now I'm wide awake, lol.

I would like to add the following:

Louis Armstrong

Oksana Baiul ~ "What A Wonderful World" (my favorite version was at Celebration of Gold, but couldn't find it on youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11gRRzortYM

Mary Beth Marley & Rockne Brubaker ~ "What A Wonderful World" + "La Vie en Rose" (hands down my favorite program of their ever, ah what could have been...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhfambKZpo

Billie Holiday

Oksana Baiul ~ "Ain't Nobody's Business": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLE3FKnmB_c

Edith Piaf

Alissa Czisny ~ "La Vie en Rose": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_fj_6QgA0

Mary Beth Marley & Rockne Brubaker ~ Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" + "La Vie en Rose" (my favorite program of theirs ever): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhfambKZpo


And finally, ALL THAT JAZZ ~ Oksana Baiul (genius in every single way is this program, perfect marriage of performer to the music, to the choreography, et al): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRrW1Q_0nk

[modern_muslimah]

Art Blakey
Original piece: Moanin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsnDvILmI)

Kevin Reynolds "Moanin" (I'm not a Reynolds fan but I always liked this program because not only does he skate to jazz but he skates to hard bop, which isn't a type of jazz that is competitively skated to often): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kCFkBl27A

[lulu]

Dave Brubeck
Original piece: Take Five (http://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs)

Shishkova & Naumov, 1992 SP (http://youtu.be/8tUeEcE7_Bk)

[gkelly]

Laetitia Hubert In the Mood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh13Rlf1IfI) -- anyone recognize the opening piece?

Olga Markova Harlem Nocturne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzjj18Cmwe4)

Nicole Bobek In the Mood, The Mooche, Daybreak Express (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNdx92ELVI)

Amber Corwin Walk on the Wild Side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9hs8diXEI)

Todd Eldredge Walk on the Wild Side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-xMPDVWCgY)

Surya Bonaly Caravan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrzG9p_Xs0)

[Maofan7]

Art Blakey
Original piece: Moanin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsnDvILmI)

Kevin Reynolds "Moanin" (I'm not a Reynolds fan but I always liked this program because not only does he skate to jazz but he skates to hard bop, which isn't a type of jazz that is competitively skated to often): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kCFkBl27A

Thanks. Here is another version of it:-

Tara Lipinski & Ilia Kulik (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyGhW36ELw)


Dave Brubeck
Original piece: Take Five (http://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs)

Shishkova & Naumov, 1992 SP (http://youtu.be/8tUeEcE7_Bk)

Thanks also. Here are some more versions:-

Chen Lu - 1997 World Championships SP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_JYfYSO-c)

Patrick Chan - 2012 World Championships - SP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnaVlVQ1Lc)

Torvill & Dean - 1996 World Professional Championships - Technical Program (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOl6Sm27n4)

[modern_muslimah]

Thanks. Here is another version of it:-

Tara Lipinski & Ilia Kulik - Moanin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyGhW36ELw)



No problem! :) Thanks for starting this thread. I love jazz and love when skaters utilize it.

[modern_muslimah]

Dave Brubeck
Original piece: Take Five (http://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs)

Shishkova & Naumov, 1992 SP (http://youtu.be/8tUeEcE7_Bk)

Takahiko Kozuka's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmT0AY29CX8) version (my favorite :swoon:)


Surya Bonaly Caravan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrzG9p_Xs0)

Another program to Caravan by Bebe Liang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP80BPS2MfI)

[Jun Y]

One of the most overused music in (American) skating is Sing Sing Sing. One cannot go through any year's Nationals without hearing it at least once. Jeff Buttle had a version of that.

I'm not sure it's true that jazz is used less than popular music in figure skating. At least in North American pop is far less common than jazz in competitions. It seems to me that non-Russian European skaters sometimes use heavy techno, which is in itself a lot more popular in Europe than in North American.

[Maofan7]

[QUOTE=Jun Y;3791838]One of the most overused music.... is Sing Sing Sing.[/QUOTE

It certainly has been used a lot. Here are a few more versions:-

Mao Asada - Superstars on Ice Exhibition 2008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6SbvNDUHgs)

Torvill & Dean - Dancing on Ice 2006 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaknP2mg7GE)

Jeffrey Buttle - 2006 Canadian Nationals - SP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNGcZ_7IUc)

Todd Eldredge - 2008 Exhibition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSE8kOyFmsw)

My favourite is of course - Mao Asada's! Wow Mao at her best - love what she does with the hat!

[falling_dance]

Maria Butyrskaya, St. James Infirmary Blues - popularized(?) by Louis Armstrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cht_9tFzq-Q)

Witt's In the Mood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfF8nv5QBWo) SP is a guilty pleasure.

[gkelly]

One of the most overused music.... is Sing Sing Sing.

I'd say it was probably already considered a skating classic by the time Brian Orser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSCr-A8T5qQ) used it in 1988.

Big band/swing seems to have been almost as common as classical music all along, especially in ice dance because so much of it is intended as music for social dancing. Also blues has been popular because the slow extended notes work well with extended gliding moves.

Grishuk/Platov St. James Infirmary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z4zz0zskPc)

And on that note, Summertime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_exxGGmRV8) has also been very popular.
Browning does it jazz-style (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UXQkTZbQk)

[Jun Y]

I can't point to the precise source but it might have been Phillip Mills who explained that skaters who are not suited to the ballet style of movements (for example, not naturally long-limb or very flexible) can do well with jazz music. Makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, sometimes skaters/coaches/choreographers use jazz music to hide poor posture and sloppy, unfinished movements. Loads of skaters use jazz music, but few do it well and gets to the heart of the freedom and spirit.

[lala]

Plushenko Mack the knife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7c-9GqE3Q :eek:

[lulu]

Takahiko Kozuka's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmT0AY29CX8) version (my favorite :swoon:)



Great routine :) Thanks for the link.