Howard Beaumont – Dancing Decades (2018)

CD Duration: 65.11 / Year: 2018

July 2018 release at the Yamaha Tyros 5, Yamaha P115 Digital Piano and Roland PK9 Pedalboard.

All Tracks In Sequence and suitable for Ballroom Dancing [IS/ST].

[Foxtrot/Blues] With You On My Arm / When Mabel Walks in the Room
[Foxtrot/Blues] Honey Pie / I Left My Heart in San Francisco
[Quickstep] The Hustle
[Quickstep] The Rhythm of Life
[Waltz] Three Coins in the Fountain (Ballroom)
[Waltz] The Godfather Waltz
[Rhumba] La Playa
[Rhumba] The Colours of My Life / Blue Bayou
[Saunter] Vision On Theme (Left Bank Two)
[Saunter] Stranger on the Shore / Chanson d’Amour
[Cha Cha] Four Seasons Medley: Big Girls Don’t Cry / Sherry
[Cha Cha] Flashdance… What a Feeling
[Swing] Irish Medley: Phil the Fluter / I’ll Tell Ma / Whiskey in the Jar
[Swing] Scottish Medley: Mari’s Wedding / Scotch on the Rocks / A Scottish Soldier / Loch Lomond / Roaming in the Gloaming
[Bossa Nova] This Masquerade
[Bossa Nova] The Girl from Ipanema
[Jive] Runaround Sue / Under the Moon of Love
[Jive] Isn’t She Lovely / When You Smile
[Tango] Guitar Tango / While My Guitar Gently Weeps
[Tango] Sealed with a Kiss / The End of the World
[Viennese Waltz] Upstairs Downstairs Theme (Ballroom)

 

With major advancements in keyboard technology producing lifelike samples of real instruments, these encompass full blown orchestras right down to small groups; the possibilities in musical creation are endless.

The Yamaha Tyros 5 digital workstation has enabled me to create these tracks of ballroom and sequence dance music. I have concentrated on what I feel are important decades in popular music, namely from the 1950s through to the 1970s, plus one great song from the 1980s ‘Flashdance… What a Feeling’.

These songs over the years have become standards, never losing their freshness. Even if you don’t dance, I hope you find these arrangements stimulating enough to wiggle your toes along to these infectious rhythms.

Happy Listening and Dancing!