Word: dixieland
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...clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...
...syncopated style of music now known as "swing." La Rocca has been running a grocery store, Shields painting houses. Last week the secret was out. At the Old Absinthe House. La Rocca and Shields were just getting "lipped up." With "swing" more popular than ever before, the old Dixieland Band was about to reorganize, set out on the road again...
...song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first in the South...
...holes, Jones found himself possessed of still another title. To his U. S. Open and British Open titles, he had added that of his native Dixieland. Professionals Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y., and John Golden, Patterson, N. J., were tied for second place, eight strokes behind the winder's 281. In an especially arranged playoff two days later, Golden defeated Fanell 70-71, took the first cash award...
...Hall, Monday evening, June 21:--1. One-step, "When You Wore a Tulip"; 2. One-step, "Chinatown"; 3. Waltz, "Cecile"; 4. Fox-trot, "Syncopated Walk"; 5. One-step, "Tennessee"; 7. Fox-trot, "Show Us How to Do the Fox-Trot"; 8. Waltz, "Mighty Lak' a Rose"; 9. One-step, "Dixieland"; 10. One-step, "When I Discovered You"; 11. Fox-trot, "One Horse Town"; 12. "Erie"; 13. Waltz, "Love Moon"; 14, One-step, "War in Schoenburg"; 15. Fox-trot, "Good-Bye Girls"; 16. One-step, "Little Spark of Love"; 17. Waltz, "Millicent"; 18. Fox-trot, "Grown Up Ladies"; 19. One-step...