[Dixielandjazz] Axe in the vernacular Revisited

[Robert Newman]

Sure.   Any cat that wants to be in the CUTTING SESSION has to bring his 
AXE.

Just like in show business they say BREAK A  LEG.   That's so they can get 
in the CAST.

Bob Newman


---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Gates" <kwg28 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Robert Newman" <bobngaye at surewest.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Axe in the vernacular


> Looking thru some old Mississippi Rags, I ran across the Dec 2000
> edition to find this---
> "On the Streckfus riverboat line, when an errant musician was about
> to be terminated, he would discover a shipboard fireaxe on his band
> stand chair.  Upon seeing it, he immediately knew that he was "axed"
> from the job."
>
> Thus began the terminology of "axe" in musicians vernacular.
>
> Anybody have a different version?
>
> Ken Gates
>
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