Word: jazzmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bands made up of New Qrleans old-timers still remain. They're both based at Preservation Hall, on St. Peter Street just off Bourbon, and so many of their members have died in recent years that the two bands have to share their trombonist, clarinetist, and drummer. These ancient jazzmen play with the vigor they must have had in the barrelhouse saloons and honky-tonks where they played in the twenties. But nowadays they go on tour and play at Lincoln Center and at Symphony Hall, where they were March...
Jazz doesn't usually play its past; it leaves the past behind as the background for the development of new forms. No one today would try to recreate King Oliver or Jelly Roll Morton, and the great jazzmen still alive play even their old songs in new ways, always experimenting. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the remnant of the original jazz--so far removed from current jazz as to be an anachronism, a piece of history that is Storyville and New Orleans and Dixieland, which captivates even children too young to understand nostalgia...
...still area considerable hindrance. "They only allow kids to be in 40 shows a year," explains his father. This spring the family brought Enrico to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and dropped the youngster like a tiny sonic bomb into the midst of America's most famous jazzmen...
Their goal was ambitious: to extend the language of jazz even farther than the progressives and, at the same time, restore its old freewheeling gut-blues intensity. Drawing on African primitivism, Mediterranean and Asian folk music, and sounding at times like Viennese atonalists, the new jazzmen vary tonal centers, when they are used at all, as often as they do moods. Basic rhythms, unavoidable before, are often merely implied or forgotten entirely now. But as Ornette Coleman says, "When it's done with taste and love, hardly anybody wouldn't like...