Word: dixieland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Sunday 200 jazz enthusiasts crowded Lowell House Junior Common Room to hear five Harvard students and a Wellesley girl play music in "true Dixieland style...
Harvard's own Dixieland Band forgathered Sunday afternoon in the Lowell House Junior Common Room and the last of the hundreds of the faithful that followed it had to climb through the windows. They couldn't get through the door...
...Dixieland jazz band will present a free concert in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group of eight plays in the old Dixieland style, improvising on New Orients and later Chicago standards...
Five Harvard students will join a Wellesley girl and students from Milton Academy and Belmont Hill in a free concert of Dixieland jazz at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lowell Junior Common Room. If they draw a large crowd, the students plan additional concerts in an effort to stimulate jazz at Harvard...
...Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...