[Dixielandjazz] Defining styles

[D and R Hardie]

Dear Butch,
You said a mouthful! Like what on earth is OKOM.
Dan Hardie
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On Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 03:36  AM, Butch Thompson wrote:

> Charlie Suhor is right on the money:
>
>> in a way it?s nice to relax the compulsive
>> category-making that we?ve inherited in Western society and experience
>> all music as ?just music,? as raw experience. We can even revisit the
>> musics we?ve long known and bring a fresh, original mind to them.
>
> Exactly.  The categories feel so concrete, until you start trying to 
> explain
> them, for example, to somebody who asks a very simple question:
>
> "What is stride piano?"
>
> "What is the difference between ragtime and New Orleans jazz?"
>
> And the like . . . .
>
> Butch Thompson
>
>
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