[Dixielandjazz] How Rock and Roll is Jazz These Days?

[Steve Barbone]

Here's one man's opinion.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Quote from 10th Avenue Jazz Band tuba player, Dan Zeilinger during an
interview in the UK with James Benwell

Question: ³Finally, how rock n¹ roll is jazz these days?²

Dan's answer: ³Well now, that¹s a good question because only very few people
realise that jazz was the rock n¹ roll of it¹s time. In the early nineteen
hundreds, kids would come together, pick up the loudest instruments, write
the most sexual lyrics and really make their parents angry. If more kids
understood that I think they¹d listen. Nowadays though, it¹s all old guys
with leisure trousers and the image of Dixieland jazz is just awful!!²

Source: http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1628