Word: dixielanders
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...Jazz in a Stable" disc, which features the first group to play at the Harvard New Jazz Society, is devoted to progressive and experimental music. It will be followed by a Dixieland record, "Jazz at Columbus Ave.", featuring the Johnny Windhurst quintet with Jim Andrews '58 at the piano. Later in the year the company will release "Jazz for Harvard Squares", a record angled at students who dislike jazz...
...looked the soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
...which Rip whistles for his dog (which answers "Woof! Woof!"), watches the dwarfs play at ninepins, has a couple of drinks while the bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany Night Boat, mostly moonlight and summer, and a five-piece Dixieland band on deck; 5) New York, a one-minute explosion in which the percussionists and their public-service assistants beat, squeeze, crank, .crash and blow vigorously...
Steamed-Up Antics. The Metropole's regular musicians like their job, partly because the work is steady and requires no traveling, partly because the Dixieland market has leveled off. The pay? "Ah," growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together...