Skating to Jazz

[paskatefan]

Thanks, Simone, for your comments and video contributions!

Kozuka is quite a jazz man
2005/2006 SP Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl43Hzy5eVs (Just music, couldn’t find a link to performance)
2005/2006 LP Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWpalAQoYU
2006/2007 Exhibition I Could Have Danced All Night by Jamie Cullum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHLMcdQE1O8
2008/2009 SP Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpRKk1fdu0
2008/2009 Exhibition Save the Last Dance for Me by Michael Buble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NALIvgHQMk (with 3S + reverse-rotation 2S combination )
2011/2012 SP Inner Urge by Joe Henderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqDLc_BkKY
And his lovely brand new exhibition to Moon Dance by Michael Buble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPh-kAXsrwo

I just have to say I really like this guy’s music choices. Other than above mentioned he used some classic rock, rock folk, blues, (Simon & Garfunkel, Bee Gees, Nick Drake, John Mayer, Blues Brothers), some guitar (Guitar Concerto and Jimi Hendrix), great soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.

Same here. Taka may have an introverted personality or presence on the ice (and he's not the only one), but I find him delightful to watch.

[aliceanne]

Stephane Lambiel's "Let the Good Times Roll" at All That Skate LA 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EPwnxrY_Nc

I'm always a sucker for an "In the Mood", "Sing, Sing, Sing", or Gershwin program. If you go to "The Way They Were Thread" there is a link to a young Torvill and Dean skating to "In the Mood".

[vivika1982]

Elena Sokolova -Bublitchki (sounds more like Russian-Ukrainian folk song but originally is a jazz from mid 20's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyg6ssvaeA

Ziggy Elman's orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwrx0ZU4Gc

and Leonid Utesov.s version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHdCOKMcZY

[siouxdonym]

There were some swing sequences in Denis Ten's Artist program.

[reut]

There were some swing sequences in Denis Ten's Artist program.

Denis said that his competitive programs and their style were inspired by the exhibition program Stéphane Lambiel choreographed for him last summer.
A really nice one indeed:

"Singin' in the rain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqtnX54HmQ

[shah]

Kiira skating to Finnish jazz at the Olys in Vancouver

[babayaga]

Kozuka is quite a jazz man
2005/2006 SP Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl43Hzy5eVs (Just music, couldn’t find a link to performance)
2005/2006 LP Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWpalAQoYU
2006/2007 Exhibition I Could Have Danced All Night by Jamie Cullum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHLMcdQE1O8
2008/2009 SP Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpRKk1fdu0
2008/2009 Exhibition Save the Last Dance for Me by Michael Buble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NALIvgHQMk (with 3S + reverse-rotation 2S combination )
2011/2012 SP Inner Urge by Joe Henderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqDLc_BkKY
And his lovely brand new exhibition to Moon Dance by Michael Buble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPh-kAXsrwo

I just have to say I really like this guy’s music choices. Other than above mentioned he used some classic rock, rock folk, blues, (Simon & Garfunkel, Bee Gees, Nick Drake, John Mayer, Blues Brothers), some guitar (Guitar Concerto and Jimi Hendrix), great soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.

Thanks so much for this post! I was going to make a post about Takahiko myself but I don't need to anymore. "The inner urge" was one of my favorite short programs that year, but unfortunately his best performance of it was during a summer ice show, probably The Ice. He was right on the music there, didn't miss a beat, but unfortunately I cannot find it on youtube anymore.

[artsciboy]

Maria Butyrskaya always rocked the jazz pieces. Here are my favourites from her:

'99 Worlds SP - St James Infirmary
'98 Olympics SP - Fever
'96 Worlds SP - Blues
'02 Europeans Exhibition - Broadway Medley

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Michelle Kwan's Eric Clapton SP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-FGgLaAFs0