[Dixielandjazz] Jazz and Condon's College popularity with college kids.

[Steve barbone]

The liner notes for Eddie Condon's "Ivy League Jazz" include:
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"The word jazz is defined loftily in the Harvard Dictionary of Music as: 'a
generic name for 20th Century styles in the music usually associated with
American popular dancing.'"

as well as

"The kind of music that Eddie Condon and his carefully selected band plays
has always attracted "Ivy Leaguers" in phenomenal numbers. Today (ca. 1955)
Eddie Condon's Village spot is considered Saturday Night 'Mecca' for any
Eastern college B. M. O. C. and his date. Perhaps the reason for the appeal
of this music lies in its wonderful rhythmic character and drive, or,
perhaps 'Dixieland' jazz itself suggests enough of the wayward Twenties and
early Thirties to provide various pleasures today. The reasons are really
unimportant. The point is, Eddie Condon's kind of music is "young" music (or
perhaps music that makes one feel young) and is as much a part of the Ivy
League tradition as the Yale-Harvard Game or the Dartmouth Winter Carnival."

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Hmmmmmmm. . . did the times change, or is it the way we play the music?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone