Word: dixielanders
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...Soviet audiences were especially fond of Dixieland and swing numbers, but many wanted to hear more modern jazz. "They asked why I hadn't brought along Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, or some 'progressive' jazz man," Goodman said...
Lips That Fail. Most of the men are well over 60, and all are traditional players of the New Orleans style-a rick-a-tick-tick, free-moving jazz form that is the noblest ancestor of Dixieland. The oldest regular is Papa John Joseph, 85, who still plays a mean bass and is a veteran of the old Kid Ory and King Oliver Creole jazz bands. Papa plays in the company of such old regulars as Trumpeter Punch Miller, 68, and Clarinetist George Lewis, 62. Lewis is among the few jazz pioneers still living. The clarinet on which he composed...
...through after establishing that they carried no proscribed material. Navy planes and ships also detected and tracked half a dozen Soviet submarines. When the subs surfaced to recharge their batteries, they were politely hailed by Russian-speaking U.S. interpreters, then permitted to continue their voyage. One destroyer gathered a Dixieland combo on its deck, blared a jazz greeting across the water to a surfaced sub intruder. The Russians grinned like kids...
...mostly the sons and daughters of Administration officials, ambassadors and chiefs of diplomatic missions. Jazzman Paul Winter, 23, clutched his alto sax, gave three foot beats, and led his sextet into Bells and Horns, The Ballad of the Sad Young Men and Pony Express. The style was somewhere between Dixieland and progressive, and it seemed to bewilder some of the young folks. But it really sent Jackie. Afterward she confided to Pianist Warren Bernhardt: "I could hardly keep from wiggling around like you on the piano bench." Said she to Leader Winter: "That was wonderful. Simply wonderful...
...Dixieland rhythm gripped Carey Cage last night as more than 800 collegiate Republicans demonstrated their desire to support the GOP ticket and to meet other young Republicans...