Word: dixielanders
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Five Harvard students will join a Wellesley girl and students from Milton Academy and Belmont Hill in a free concert of Dixieland jazz at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lowell Junior Common Room. If they draw a large crowd, the students plan additional concerts in an effort to stimulate jazz at Harvard...
...Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
House syncopation--addicts can commune with their radio sets tonight and tomorrow as WHON gives out with 29 hours of continuous jazz starting at 7:30 o'clock. The Network's jazz orgy, given every term during reading period, will feature both Modern and Dixieland recordings...
...Bechet (pronounced Be-shay), who looks like a sleepy Pullman porter, has been talking through a clarinet for more than 40 years. Last week, in a smoky joint called Jimmy Ryan's on Manhattan's brassy 52nd Street, Sidney was proving again that he is the best Dixieland two-beat jazzman anywhere on clarinet or soprano saxophone (which looks like an oversize clarinet...
Those who feel that 1917 saw zenith of recorded jazz will be pleased to hear that a member of the original Dixieland Jazz Band, one Tony Spargo (ne Sparbaro) has drunk the fountain of youth and gleaned strength enough therefrom to make another record. The anachronistic session took place under the auspices of the Swan Record Company and the songs "Sister Kate" and "I'll Never Be The Same" were played. Supported by another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings...