[Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz

[Robert S. Ringwald]

You could think of straight ahead as maybe, somewhere between Dixieland,
Traditional or Swing & Bop.


Bob
mr.wonderful@ringwald.com
Placerville, CA, USA, Earth, Sol's System, Milky Way


----- Original Message -----
From: "jazzfact" <jazzfact@ozemail.com.au>
To: <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>; "'Dixieland Jazz Mailing List'"
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Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:39 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz


> Ahah, sounds to me like "mainstream", another title for jazz I don't
> understand yet!
>
> regards
>
> Richard Stevens
> www.ozemail.com.au/~jazzfact/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-admin@ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-admin@ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Barbone
> Sent: Monday, 30 December 2002 2:33 PM
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz
>
> As used in the Northeast part of the USA, (I think) "Straight Ahead"
> Jazz is a post swing, pre bop style of jazz. Like the music of Lester
> Young, Ben Webster, Most of Coleman Hawkins, Paul Desmond, Johnny
> Hodges. Big Band stuff like Count Basie in the late 50s and afterwards.
> Hard to define exactly, but not bop or anything that was newly developed
> thereafter. Sometimes probably misnamed "Small Band Swing"
>
> Many quartets / trios do it today by jazzing up Gershwin, Kern, McHugh
> and others.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
>
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