[Dixielandjazz] Half a million people can't be wrong!

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Lifted Snip:
In a message dated 9/23/2006 12:33:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

The Arts  Council in Britain for example is
> convinced that jazz began in the  1940s with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie
> Parker and not in New Orleans  with Buddy Bolden at the turn of the 19th
> century."
>  



Attended a Jazz Improv Workshop At Webster Univ. this a.m.  Expected  the 
attendance to be mostly high schoolers and the workshop about bop.  It  was.  
They had a handout entitled, "Historically Significant  Recordings".  All of them 
are from the bebeop era forward--oh wait, I see  one Count Basie, "The 
Complete Atomic Basie", and one Ellington (with  Mingus, Roach).  They do include a 
caveat that the earlier recordings are  of poor sound quality, or are not 
available on CD or "the artists recorded lots  of material and are represented by 
later recordings elsewhere on this  list."
Ginny