[Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz

[Tony Davis]

I'm puzzled by Fred Spencer's reference, under the above subject heading, to
"The Melody Maker, Jan., 1926, p. 24".  I have the issue in front of me, and
on page 24 appears an article by Hubert Bath, entitled "How To Read Music At
Sight", which contains no reference to "Straight Ahead Jazz".  Can you
explain, please, Fred?

----- Original Message -----
From: "fred spencer" <drjz@bealenet.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz


> 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
>