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Only two 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...
The two Preservation Hall Jazz Bands play an antique jazz preserved, yes, but able to infect a couple of thousand people in Symphony Hall with an enthusiasm that leads to dancing in the aisles. The members of the bands are not innovators, at least not these days. They improvise from...
DeDe Pierce's trumpet leads the touring group, which takes its impulsive rhythm from Billie Pierce's constant piano figures and from the steady drumming provided by Cie Frazier on snare, cymbals, bass and woodblock. The music emphasizes collective improvisation, with Willie Humphrey harmonizing the upper voice on the clarinet...
But by the sixties the music was so separate from its original low-life milieu that my parents could take me, as a very small boy, to Preservation Hall. Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Boys were playing that night. I was nine years old, so it was...
The most significant fact about Central European culture, observes Dr. Joachim Kaiser, is its conservatism. "This is true for two reasons. First, a great many institutions, very much to the regret of the young left, have remained unshakable. These include the theater, the opera, publishing and the world of intellectual...