Word: dixielanders
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...there's more. Sunday afternoon a jazz groups will play Dixieland stuff. One awed student, Tommy Harris '70, said yesterday, "Kirby's the best thing to hit Quincy House since the fire four years...
...singing and piano playing rank her with Aretha Franklin at the top of the female jazz, blues and soul camp. On piano, she can tinkle along simply like Count Basic or pile chord upon chord like Rubinstein playing Tchaikovsky. At times, her voice has the reedy wobble of a Dixieland clarinet, but it can also whisper, wail, or break in above the instrumental accompaniment like an Indian shehnai. As Ray Charles notes, nobody ever comes close to imitating her, or even trying, "probably because everybody knows she's the only one who can do it." To Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy...
Died. Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, 62, sad-faced but joyful jazz clarinetist, who wailed with Eddie Condon and a host of other Dixieland greats of the '30s and '40s, and in the past decade delighted audiences on four continents by blending his basic blues style with the experimental sounds of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman; of pancreatitis; in Washington...
Since the polls had closed at seven, the volunteers had been dragging back into headquarters. McCarthy Headquarters occupied the first two floors of the Claypool Hotel; the remaining floors had been gutted by fire a few months earlier. Tuesday night, it was filled with exhausted, slightly depressed volunteers. A dixieland band only aggravated the prevailing tension...
...explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole Composer Jelly Roll Morton. And he even unearths an occasional gee-whiz oddity, such as the fact that one of the first authentic white Dixieland bands was led by Jimmy Durante...