Word: dixieland
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...Crimson Stompers, the College's Dixieland jazz band, opened their activities this past week with two appearances at Boston's Savoy Cafe, local stronghold of Dixio...
Last Wednesday evening the Stompers took over the Savoy stand as house band and Sunday afternoon hocked up with Wild Bill Davison, king-put of Dixieland hornmen, in a jam session royal...
...Stompers' presentation of tunes ranged from popular stand-bys such as "Blue Skies" to all the New Orleans classies like "Dixieland One-Step" and 'That's Aplenty...
Comes Jazz (Columbia) includes such favorites as Shim Me Sha Wabble, That Da-Da Strain and At the Jazz Band Ball, torn off with good Dixieland sound by such alumni of Chicago's North Side as Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell...
...Even Dixielander Bob Crosby, who had given up his loud brass and fast beat after the war because "guys are sick and tired of jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...