Interview with US tap dancer Will Gaines: archive, 9 October 1981
Gaines has a quip about how he started tapping: 'Well, I was sittin there doin nothin with these chains on my feet…'Jazz tap has become, almost overnight, an art form in this country - yet we've had a veteran like Will Gaines living over here in Rotherham since 1963, largely unrecognised. He jokes around a lot, but he's a serious enough performer to have danced with Duke Ellington's band during the Ellington Mass a…