Word: dixieland
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...around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly the show lacks the fine cutting edge that the Americans grind onto their musicals. But the more sophistication...
Died. Dominic ("Nick") LaRocca, 71, whose all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band was among the first to walk the beat from New Orleans to Chicago in 1916, and who wrote Tiger Rag, Fidgety Feet and other jazz classics made famous by his blaring cornet; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans...
...movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two vocals in her most irresistible manner, and Dinah Washington offers "All of Me," which is a bit too much for anyone to take...
...East to the Roundtable, the Half Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show up at the Central Plaza, a mammoth jungle gym where teen-agers bring their own bottles and where there are two cops in uniform...
...there was actually a stethoscope dangling from his pocket for half the evening.) He filled us in on some of the details of amateur jazz on the East Coast, and then proceeded to introduce the group. Apparently it started just for fun in 1953, and it's been strictly Dixieland for four years or so. It was the combo's first appearance at Harvard...