[Dixielandjazz] Harlem Jazz? was Cartoon music of the Bratislava Hot Serenaders

[Steve Barbone]

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

> Hey Bill,
> 
> Please don't call it Cartoon Music.  It is great, Hot Harlem Jazz.


Hi Bob:

Do you mean Haarlem as in The Netherlands? I can't recall any bands in
Harlem NYC playing as Mickey Mouse as that.

Seriously, though, the Bratislave musicians are excellent. The band is well
arranged. BUT, Is it jazz?

Guys like Eddie Condon would have said no and reminded us that jazz in the
1920s/30s was popularly associated with Whiteman, Gershwin and Irving
Berlin. and that the Bratislava Band was playing popular music.

Perhaps that kind of music in the "jazz age", as compared to the real jazz
of the originators, (Oliver, Bolden, Armstrong, Bechet et al) is more like
what Kenny G and his clones play today, compared to the real jazz of this
and/or any other era?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone