[Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz

[fred spencer]

The Melody Maker, Jan., 1926, p. 24 - "...To play the music in a continuously
exciting. unadorned manner: frequently hortatory"(Robert S. Gold, "Jazz Talk",
1975). I don't recall coming upon this phrase in any other sense, but.....?
To save some of you from resorting to a dictionary, which I had to do ,
"hortatory" means "encouraging, inciting, exhorting, urging to a course of
conduct or action", which to me doesn't mean anything concrete in this
setting.
>From the same book - "Mainstream...jazz that has roots in the swing
period...an intermediate position between the traditionalists and the
modernists". And "coined in the 1950s by historian Stanley Dance...'a kind of
jazz which, while neither "traditional"  nor "modern",is better than both.'
(Peter Clayton and and Peter Gammond. "The Guinness Jazz Companion", 1989).
But, perhaps more to the point, more on "Mainstream" in Gold - "These labels
are normally manufactured by critics to bring some sort of jazz they like to
the attention of more people" (Jazz News, 16 Aug, 1961, p. 10). Cheers to that
and for 2003.
Fred

"Robert S. Ringwald" wrote:

> 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>
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> > Ahah, sounds to me like "mainstream", another title for jazz I don't
> > understand yet!
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Richard Stevens
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> > [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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