Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly and succinctly tells about the next record or gently nudges his guest to talk about his life and times. "While they're learning to admire Americans as performers, listeners around the world are learning to admire America," says Conover. The show almost...
...wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark, president of South Carolina's Citadel, whose Dixieland views now include a belief that racial integration harms the military? "I don't agree with him at all," replied Washington, D.C.-born McAuliffe. "The integration of the Negro in the armed forces has worked out very well...
...difference between bop and Dixieland musicians, Jazzman Eddie Condon once cracked, is that bop men flat their fifths, whereas Dixielanders drink theirs...
King Calypso. The best band of the mid-40s was The Invaders, who are credited with introducing bouncing massed "riffs" in harmony, and thus paralleling the transition of U.S. jazz from Dixieland counterpoint to the massed effects of swing. Today the steelband has swept the Caribbean islands-there is a severe short age of oil drums and automobile brake drums. The music is also penetrating the U.S. through recordings and tours by stray bands. Last week Record-Maker Emory Cook carried his microphones and tape recorders right into the parade to capture steelbands...
...dillers" that Benny made famous in the '30s, and the swinging improvisations did not seem so improvised any more. But this exhibit from the past-venerable enough to have a movie made about his life-was still able to show a new generation that there is something besides Dixieland, "progressive," and the noise called rock-'n'-roll. "One of the worst things about this stuff they play nowadays," said Benny, "is what it does to the musicians. I had an awful time trying to get some guys together who could really deliver music. A little while...