[Dixielandjazz] What is Jazz?

[Steve Barbone]

"Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>

> 
> Steve Barbone wrote:
> 
> (snip)
>> Some, like Armstrong, played the same solo over and over. Is that Jazz?
>> Sure, if the listener wants it to be.
> (snip)
> 
> 
> As far as I am concerned, it is not up to the listener to decide whether
> Armstrong's repeated solos were  Jazz.  Even if they were repeated time
> after time, they were still Jazz.
> 
> Even though he may have played the same solos, there was always something a
> little different about them.  He was not playing in a symphony orchestra,
> trying to play the exact same way every time.  he was improvising on his own
> solos.
> 
> --Bob Ringwald

hey Bob:

Didn't you, as the listener, just define jazz above? If not, who? <grin>.
>From my point of view as a listener, not everything Louis did was jazz.

Cheers,
Steve