Word: dixielander
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Jazz KENNY BALL PLAYS FOR THE JET SET (Kapp). The thought of From Russia with Love pounded out in Dixieland style by a sextet of Britons is enough to make purists quail. But the result is surprisingly lively, with a mean banjo taking the balalaika part. Even more surprising is Londonderry Air in shuffle rhythm, and Isle of Capri with a honky-tonk piano intro. Best of all is Alabama Jubilee, a traditional Dixie item done up brown as a hoecake...
Everywhere you go, it's Hello, Dolly! Everybody is doing it: modern jazz groups, Dixieland groups, dance bands. Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Peter Nero, Al Hirt, Benny Goodman, Andy Williams, Steve Lawrence, Andre Kostelanetz. "I guess there hasn't been a big hit like this since Star Dust," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams...
Soviet Russia blows hot and cold on the subject of jazz-but never cool. Insisting that jazz came up the river from Odessa long before it made its Mississippi passage, Soviet authorities three years ago began relaxing the ban against Dixieland and swing. As a result, such dated numbers as When the Saints Go Marchin In and Sixteen Tons are now popular in Russia. Yet the Soviet music masters could not bring themselves to permit Russian musicians to play kholodny or cool dzhaz-the progressive sound of Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz, much admired by many Russians who hear...
Condon was the first to insist that Dixieland jazz was worthy of being lifted out of the dingy cellars and onto the concert stage. He helped inspire the whole cult of jazz critics, who could spin out columns on the flittering trumpet solos of Bobby Hackett. To prove his point, in 1942 Condon promoted a highly successful series of jazz "concerts" at Manhattan's Town Hall. During cool jazz's dominance, Condon doggedly ran his own club in Greenwich Village. He organized the bands, promoted Dixieland indefatigably, arranged for the recording sessions...
...playing the old unconfined jazz. Music has survived some strange invasions but we've done an awfully good job of being relevant for quite a few years. We've raised some hell in our time." As an elder statesman, Condon is probably too gloomy. Fact is that Dixieland music is experiencing something of a renaissance. At debutante balls and bar mitzvahs, on campuses and at country-club dances, Dixieland bands are discoursing anew on an old theme that Eddie Condon kept alive...