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...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Sharkey's Southern Comfort (Sharkey Bonano; Capitol; 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). One of New Orleans' favorite jazz combos helps prove, with spirited renditions of Temptation Rag, Basin Street Blues and four others, that the Dixieland tradition still flourishes in its old home town...
...time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward command post. In addition to the regular band for martial music, there is a 13-piece dance orchestra, a four-piece "hillbilly combo," an eight-piece Dixieland jazz group, a "novelty group" for European folk songs and classics...
...Orleans celebrates its Vieux Carré with Dixieland bands ("old-style" like that of Papa Celestin, and such jazzed-up "new-style" as Sharkey Bonano's), and with a cooking program featuring chefs from Antoine's, Arnaud's, Galatoire...
John Philip Sousa Marches (Coral; 2 sides LP). Sousa isn't just Sousa any more; he has syncopation possibilities. Here, Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats have some good clean Dixieland fun with The Stars and Stripes Forever, El Capitán, and half a dozen other old March King favorites...