Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year Capp is back. Other professional entertainers are nightclub singer Karter, the Jazz Workshop Quintet, and Buell Neidlinger's Dixieland band. In addition, the Smoker will present the Wellesley Widows and several freshman acts, including the Doozipaars, Freshman Glee Club soloist Frederick Brozer, folk-singers William D. Chapple, Michael C. Kenin, and Richard H. Zaffron, and the mimics...
...addition to the Wellesley Widows and perennial guest Al Capp, a semi-professional Dixieland group led by Huell Neidlinger, who quit Yale for professional music, will appear, Neidlinger's group will play only during the beer party...
Brubeck is as untypical in the jazz field as a harp in a Dixieland combo. In a business that has known more than its share of dope and liquor, Brubeck rarely drinks, and, after seriously and philosophically considering the possible value of mescaline,* rejected the whole idea. While itinerant musicians are apt to dally with the belles along the way, Dave is happily married and has four children (a fifth is on the way). Although a shady background was once almost essential to the seasoning of a real-life jazzman, Dave spent his youth playing nursemaid to heifers and earned...
...Orleans Jazz Party (Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings; Riverside LP). A bunch of youngsters in Dayton carrying on the tradition of "righteous" (i.e., primitive) jazz. They sound for all the world like bands of three decades ago, including twanging banjo and two-beat tuba, but with none of the surface noise of old records, and some fresh ideas...
...name combos (e.g., Pianists George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Lennie Tristano) plus informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...