sentences:  Over his career, his priority was advocating for the music of black ensembles performing sophisticated arrangements, based on Swing-era dance music.Dance was born in England to a successful Essex tobacco merchant in 1910.As a youth, he claims he was "fortunate" to have been sent to boarding-school at Framlingham College, where he first encountered American recordings of bands fronted by Jelly Roll Morton and Benny Moten, among others.