Word: dixieland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Music Hall are jumping nightly with finger snappers. Boston has a floating musical bistro called Jazzboat plying the harbor on two sold-out weekly cruises. Around New Orleans' Bourbon Street the crowds wander in and out of clubs that open onto the sidewalk. They can hear anything from driving Dixieland to the attenuated sounds of progressive jazz. In New York there are more clubs than at any time since...
...growth of jazz, however, has not always been so assured. In the 1960s jazz became ingrown and uncertain. Musicians have always regarded each other suspiciously across the generations. In the '30s, Dixieland distrusted swing. In the '40s, swing mocked bop. In the '50s, when people like Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck were experimenting with progressive harmonies and other far-out ideas, many audiences found the music too cerebral...
Given musical riches of such diversity and dimension, the future of jazz seems more promising than ever. There is still time left for the fertilization process between fathers and sons to fulfill itself. But in New Orleans, jazz funerals for the old Dixieland musicians are becoming more frequent. Preservation Hall once drew on a pool of 200 men; now there are about 40. When all the fathers are gone, the links will fall away, and there will be only the recordings for newer generations to build upon. But that should be sufficient to guarantee the future. The prelude may have...
...bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
Gould has been honing his theories for more than 50 years. A graduate of Lehigh University, he worked briefly as an engineer in 1921 (while playing in a five-piece Dixieland band on the side) but concluded that opportunities for engineers were limited in the unsettled times after World War I and went into Wall Street instead. He scoffs today at the idea that his reputation is making his forecasts self-fulfilling prophecies. The market, he asserts, will follow cycles of its own whatever he says. In any case, he does not choose to become rich by following...