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Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and writer, Norma Miller stocks her coming in contact with historical memoir of Harlem's renowned Savoy Ballroom and the remarkable music and boogie craze that "get spread around the power of Swing across the world like Wildfire". It had been a time when the music was Swing, and Harlem was king. Renowned as "the world's most beautiful ballroom" and the biggest, most tasteful in Harlem, the Savoy was the only ballroom not segregated when it opened up in 1926. The Savoy hosted the best rings and attracted the best dancers by offering the task of fierce competition. White people traveled uptown to learn enjoyable new boogie styles. A boogie contest victor by 14, Norma Miller became a member of Herbert White's world-famous Lindy Hoppers and a famous Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hop champ. Swingin' at the Savoy chronicles a significant period in American ethnical history and competition relationships, as it glorifies the popularized home of the Lindy Hop, and the birthplace of such memorable boogie fads as the Big Apple, Shag, Truckin', Peckin', Susie Q, Charleston, Peabody, Black color Bottom, Cake Walk, Boogie Woogie, Shimmy, and tap dancing. Miller stocks exciting anecdotes about her younger encounters with many of the most significant jazz legends in music background including Ella Fitzgerald, Count number Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday break, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, and even boxer Joe Louis.
