Stanley Dance

English jazz writer, oral historian and record producer.
Born September 15, 1910, Braintree, Essex, UK
Died February 23, 1999, Rancho Bernardo, California, USA.
Dance began writing for the French magazine "Jazz Hot" in 1935, and "Rhythm On Record" (a book co-written with Hilton Schleman), one of the earliest of its type, appeared in the same year. He first visited the USA for three weeks during 1937, and briefly returned in 1946. He wrote for the UK's "Jazz Journal" from 1948 to 1976 (and occasionally for the rest of his life) and "DownBeat", "Metronome", "New York Herald Tribune", and "Saturday Review". After coining the term "mainstream" to refer to the music stylistically between the revivalists and bebop, for the English Decca subsidiary, he supervised sessions for the series in New York during 1958 and 1959. Dance relaunched Earl Hines' career in 1964 by making a three-day booking at Manhattan's Little Theatre and became the pianist's (informal) manager. His books include "The World of Duke Ellington" (1970), "The World of Swing" (1974), "The World of Earl Hines" (1977) and "The World of Count Basie" (1980). Ellington's memoir "Music is my Mistress" (1974) was written with Dance's involvement and he won a Grammy for the liner notes accompanying The Ellington Era Volume One: 1927-1940. He married in 1947; the couple settled in Connecticut in 1959 (having previously lived in England) after Dance sold his family's business, and later in California from the late 1970s.
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