[Dixielandjazz] What is Jazz?

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Someone wrote:

>>> Some, like Armstrong, played the same solo over and over. Is that Jazz?

Steve Barbone answered:
>>> Sure, if the listener wants it to be.


I wrote:
>> 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.


Steve wrote:
> 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.


I reply:
Touché.

However, regarding your comment, "From my point of view as a listener, not 
everything Louis did was jazz.", IMO regardless of who Louis recorded with, 
no matter in what setting, no matter what style the band was playing, he 
always played Jazz.

 If you disagree, please point out on which recording he did not play Jazz.

--Bob Ringwald