Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sidney Bechet, 62, Negro Dixieland jazz artist famed for the honeyed wail of his soprano saxophone; of cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor...
Professor Quaeritor confesses to having a wife and family, of sorts. "My wife's name is also Jane--a coincidence, you know. We both indulge in an extracurricular liking for Chilean Dixieland; I always go to Mahogany Hall when they feature the Valparaiso Stompers...
Putting aside a booklet entitled "Annual Examination in Law" during last night's rehearsal of the new bistro's Dixieland band, Hancock outlined the features of his bar. "We have no cover and no minimum, and our Dixie group is the only one of its kind anywhere around here." His four foot-tapping friends, seated on the sidelines, nodded agreement in time to "The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise...
...grip on imaginary space as any abstract artist alive, still wrings poetry from its arrangement. Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe and Loren Maclver also scored for the older generation, and Stuart Davis' brassily old-fashioned abstraction, Pochade, was like a joyful bopping of the drums for Dixieland jazz, a great U.S. export of another era. Overall, the Whitney show testified that there is more substance in American art than the wildest skeins of abstract expression have ever suggested...
This crimson cold shoulder to Dixieland may have daunted or diverted Harvard dixie activity; but Mel Dorfman, Bowdoin grad and clarinet man, hurls a challenge of his own at collegiate non-concern. Remember jazz at Tulla's last fall, or Crimson Cafe Dixieland early this year? These were Dorfman's groups--the most recent phases of a three-year campaign for Harvard Square jazz. As Mel will say, "Since last fall things have really started to move...