Word: dixielanders
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This panel will pose such questions as: "What is jazz?" "What is the difference between Dixieland, swing, and modern?" "What is be-bop and progressive?" The three critics will answer these questions from their different points of view, and will talk about jazz as a commercial venture, as popular culture, and as an indigenous folk expression...
...group of local Dixieland musicians will also be present next Tuesday evening, and will present a concert after the forum...
...show that jazz can be a two-way street, RCA Victor has now imported some from Italy, Sweden and England to launch a new album series, Around the World in Jazz (3 LPs). As might be expected, the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band sticks to Dixieland, noodles around happily with such authentic material as Muskrat Ramble, St. James Infirmary and Tin Roof Blues. Stockholm's Arne Domnerus and Orchestra take a page out of Charlie Parker's bop book. Two English bands play in the old razzle-dazzle style of Ted Lewis. Chief merit of all three importations...
Also included in the program is George Wein's six-piece Dixieland band, "The Mahogany All-Stars," starring Vic Dickinson and Doc Cheatham. Jay Powers' Freshman Jazz Trio will also appear, and James A. Austrian '56 will serve as master of ceremonies...
...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...