Word: dixielanders
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Through the streets they pranced, gorgeous and irrepressible, beating drums, blowing horns, hopping over the open sewers to the tune of the Third Man Theme played by a marching Dixieland band, sometimes dancing a quaint, shuffling samba, some balancing trays of chewing gum and candies on their heads...
...arranging got him high marks, and he worked for such bandleaders as Tommy Tucker and Claude Thornhill, looking for ideas in his favorite composers -Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev and Bach. When he turned to playing, he could blow ragtime, Dixieland, the blues and bop, but he refused to be categorized: "It would be senseless to start playing and sound like anybody else...
...Tribute to Jazz, Ltd. (Jazz, Ltd. LP). A Chicago jive joint honors itself. Trombonist Miff Mole, Trumpeter Doc Evans & Co. provide the music: Tin Roof Blues, High Society, Jazz Me Blues, Charleston, done at length (eight minutes each) in easygoing Dixieland style...
Three stocky men, looking more like merchants than musicians, line up on the little bandstand in front of a three-man rhythm section. Unsmilingly, almost diffidently, they raise clarinet, trumpet and trombone; the trumpeter stomps out a beat, and the air pulses to the ambling rhythms of Dixieland. The place is Nick's, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the time is any night of the week (except Monday), and the trumpeter front and center, blowing bright and raucous phrases where they count most, is Phil Napoleon himself, back at the jazz business after two decades...
...Special Thought. But there was too much of the old music in him for that; friends pried him back to Dixieland. "I didn't know whether I could stand it," he says, "but I wanted to play the old music -the two-beat, the natural beat (once you get into the four-beat, you begin to jump up & down)-just once more before I died." He was afraid the "kids wouldn't like it," incredulously found there was an eager new generation that "doesn't even remember Benny Goodman...