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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...
Dixie remains the most universally popular jazz form, either as an end in itself, or the first step towards "intellectual" jazz. Yet the remnants of this era--the few dixie bands centered at Harvard and the musicians who play in make-shift Combos--find Cambridge surprisingly cool to straight Dixieland, at least job-wise. Herb Gardner's Royal Garden Six, for example, has four Harvard members, yet seldom plays in town. "Around here anyone who wants six pieces wants a dance band; so we play Dartmouth and RPI--mostly frat parties. Dixie fits in a frat...
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...