Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Philip Sousa Marches (Coral; 2 sides LP). Sousa isn't just Sousa any more; he has syncopation possibilities. Here, Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats have some good clean Dixieland fun with The Stars and Stripes Forever, El Capitán, and half a dozen other old March King favorites...
...these dixieland groups today," tiny Max Kaminsky complains in a small, high voice, "are a lot of bands that play it corny and just a few that make it swing right." Boston trumpeter Kaminsky opened Monday evening at Katherine Donahue's Savoy. His band swings, no doubt about it, but all is not as right as it could...
...Spanier's is a difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...
...Erwin's Dixieland band plays with vigor verging on skill and humor verging on corn at Nick's, at the corner of Seventh and 10th...
Five jazz specialists and a dixieland band will play at a concert at 3 p.m. today in Sanders Theatre. The program is for the benefit of the Negro scholarship fund of the College and Radcliffe chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...