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Oh my god! I never seen this footage before and the video quality is great!!
If you are house dancer, you should appreciate this. And this is back in 80s..

Even though this performance was done long time ago and UK Jazz scene in Japan was not developed yet, I still enjoy watching this performance. The video was shot by a regular crowd with Hi-8 camcorderr, it turned out to be so dramatic with lighting. And also, I love the music they danced, which is “Loud Minority” by United Future Organisation in stead of Jazz music which is normally used for jazz. I am not a jazz dancer so real jazz dancers may have different opinion but I would like to see more of UK Jazz performance done by urban club music like this song in clip. I guess I am not deep enough to appreciate the real jazz music. dancers in this video are the pioneer of UK jazz dance in Japan. They are Horie, Yuki, Goto who are later formed Sound Cream Stepperz. And Sam from TRF, a Japanese Pop music group and also long time respected dancer, and Sache. Those five dancers used to perform as a unit “MegaMix” for Japanese dance TV show.

Thanks to youtube, I am able to watch this legendary TV show of UK Jazz battle. I first heard about this tv show back in 1994 from an article in Japanese magazine. I think I saw its freeze frame on the magazine but never be able to see the actual video. And at that time in Japan, dancers don’t want to share the video with others so that if they copy or inspire moves from the video, nobody can’t tell if it is taken from somewhere. Rare videos were circulated only among the certain people. That’s the kind of the mentality in early 90s in Japan. It was the time when how fast and many videos you get from overseas play a big part to become well known in dance community. Anyway, I finally watched this video after mora than decade since I heard about it. My reaction? Even though this is more than 10 years old clip and should be considered as old school, it is still super fresh!!

Part 2 and Part 3 of the same show is below.

Representing Be-Bop style from UK, Brothers in Jazz is the best! The members are Irven Lewis, Wayne James, and Trevor Miller. Be-Bop is probably the least known style sicne its scene is limited to UK and Japan. More information about Be-Bop is coming soon