Early swing dance bands were huge groups of about twenty people who would play passionately and brilliantly live for hundreds of swing dance fans every night in the huge Savoy Grand Ballroom, which was an entire block in size, located in Harlem in northern Manhattan, New York. Those in attendance were treated to a variety of swing dances, including Lindy Hop and East Coast Swing.
Swing jazz is a jazz dance with a basic eight-beat rhythm, and some of the most popular and successful swing jazz bands to date include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman, as well as well-known swing singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Jimmy Rushing. In the early 1920s Lindy Hop was born in the Savoy Ballroom.
The story of Lindy Hop goes that a dancer in a ballroom was dancing a step that no one had ever seen before, and everyone was curious and asked the dancer what he was dancing. The dancer happened to see a report a few days ago titled "Lindy Hops the Pond" and blurted out that the dance was called the Lindy Hop, and so the Lindy Hop has become a legendary swing dance that has become extremely popular. It's a slow, beautiful, flavorful dance.