Word: dixieland
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...Dixieland, strictly speaking, which anyone today will tell is not jazz. Anyone, that is, who didn't participate in the 20-year orgy from 1919 to 1940. There are those, of course, who maintain that there haven't been any musicians since Jelly Roll Morton, but such antediluvians are obsolete, anyway...
...audiences' delight, he occasionally switched from Dixieland to the "high life," calypso-like melodies much favored in Africa, which Armstrong calls "the home country." Said he: "These cats are solid." Accra Municipal Council Chairman E. C. Quaye greeted Armstrong by pouring a pint of Scotch whisky on the ground as a libation to the gods, and chanted: "Akwaaba [welcome]." Satchmo's answer: "Yeah!" Then, in turn, he poured a fifth of Scotch on the ground, lamented: "I don't know what they say, but I'm sure it's going down the wrong...
...Hausa hawkers from the north. Influence peddlers, spies and quick-money operators were flocking in from abroad; an American opened the "Afro-Negro Bar," where U.N. officials, newsmen and merchants crowded in to drink Scotch and argue politics amid the din at the bar while a Nigerian band played Dixieland jazz in the next room...
...JAZZ STEAMBOAT, with Bill Lee.--a program of Dixieland and other traditional jazz...
...HENRY CABOT LODGE, whose agile baritone voice often livens U.N. parties, displayed the most catholicity of taste by selecting Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Handel's Messiah, Alexander's Ragtime Band, St. James Infirmary, and other Dixieland tunes as played by the Dukes of Dixieland. For good measure, Mrs. Lodge added her own preference, which is a long way from Whoopie I Oh!: Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major for Unaccompanied Cello, performed by Pablo Casals...