Word: dixieland
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...among the best customers. One violinist owns all the vio lin albums, has a habit of putting them on the record player after midnight, when he gets the urge to play but is unable to round up an orchestra. Kratka also sells briskly to schools, libraries, mental hospitals (where Dixieland is used for patient therapy) and to diplomats in remote areas. His most baffling customer: the man who wrote to request Bach's Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. ''We considered." says Kratka, "sending him a blank record and the score...
...Detroit Father Dustin is as well known for his accomplishments on the banjo as he is for his work at the city's Holy Redeemer Church. Songs Father Taught Me, a record album that he cut with his own Dixieland combo of six lay musicians, is the fastest-selling disk in town (more than 5,000 to date). Says Marvin Jacobs, general manager of Detroit's Music Merchants, Inc., Father Dustin's distributor: "In the language of the record industry, he's got it in the groove...
Growing out of the Dixieland revival in the mid '50s, the trad jazz boom has soared in the past year. A dozen new clubs are formed each week, new bands constantly spring up, trad numbers are all over the British hit parade, and even the stately BBC has begun to show its hips: a new TV series began last month, called The Trad Fad. With a clear and poundingly straightforward beat that avoids the more intricate mathematics of modern jazz, trad centers in such items as Tiger Rag and Cushion Foot Stomp, but often goes absolutely daft with kick...
...style, by Hirt's own definition, is "roving Dixieland." Programs that include numbers like Tin Roof Blues and South Rampart Street Parade are leavened with tricked-up standards-Lover Come Back To Me, All the Things You Are. But Dixieland or standard, the audience vibrates to everything Hirt & Co. produce-even, a critic remarked last week, if it is sometimes "a little hard to hear the trombone...
...Soviet Culture, organ of the Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...