[Dixielandjazz] Quote

[Fred Spencer]

To be fair to the respected authors and columnists, the Peters (Clayton and Gammond) of the humorous "Bluffer's Guide to Jazz", this is from the latter's "Oxford Companion to Popular Music", which is the best "popular music" encyclopedia by content, accuracy, weight, and price: "Dixieland jazz. Name given to the brash, marching style that emerged in New Orleans at the turn of the century. Essentially a black jazz, a confusion arose through the association of the term with white groups such as the 'Original Dixieland Jazz Band', and hence the term was often applied to such groups playing in the revivalist tradition." Cheers.

Fred