📝 “What’s a beguine?”: A beguine is a slow, swaying dance with Caribbean roots that Porter folded into Broadway with “Begin the Beguine,” which premiered in Jubilee on October 12, 1935. Anniversary months feel like the perfect time to hear that nostalgic pulse again. The rhythm is gentle, the phrasing long, the mood hypnotic, perfect for a lyric that unfolds like a memory. Once you hear that pulse, you can spot Porteresque “beguine” cues in later arrangements and in film. Here is Artie Shaw in

01 Beguine for Band by Glenn Osser arr Johnny Vinson

'' Begin the Beguine '' - Artie Shaw (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) - 1938 "Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964). At first, the song gained little popularity, perhaps because of its length and unconventional form. Josephine Baker danced to it in her return to America in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, but neither she nor the song were successful. Two years later, however, bandleader Artie Shaw recorded an arrangement of the song, an exte

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