[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Tunes

[David Richoux]

The other Dixie theories are taken from the term "Mason-Dixon Line"  
or a New York slave owner named Dixy - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie  for more.

As for the music, it is now about as generic as "Rock" to most folks  
- they could not explain what it is (or what it is not) but Dixieland  
has become a catch-all for the people who don't care to specify "Pre  
or Post WW2 Small Combo Polyphonic Improvised Jazz" (or whatever the  
heck OKOM really is ;-)

Dave Richoux

On May 14, 2008, at 3:28 PM, EDWIN COLTRIN wrote:

> Steve and others, I don't know when "dixieland" was used to  
> designate some of OKOM. However in the the early 1800s, a bank in  
> Louisiana printed ten dollar bills, dix is the word for ten in  
> french, and therefore the bills were referenced as "Dixies". I  
> assume that because they came from the South, they could then be  
> considered to come from "Dixieland" .
>
>   The ODJB  which recorded music i the ealy 1900s could have been  
> responsible for the connection. By associating their name with the  
> kind of rythm and musicc they produced. Especially where the group  
> came from.  A question, did NORK have a "Dixieland" connection as  
> to music designation ??
>
>   As for "Jass" or "Jazz", many stories abound for this connection.
>
>   As a conjecture, could there have been a designation, musically,  
> that music from the New Orleans region be called "Dixieland" and  
> the other, Fox Trots, one Step and others be  called JAZZ ?, The  
> music played by the White dance bands at the time ??
>
>
>   All this is MHO.
>
>   Slainte
>
>   Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
>
>   Ed Coltrin
>
> Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   So far, I favor the position that there were no "Dixieland" tunes.
> Weren't they all originally called Fox Trots? Or Rags? Or One Steps?
> I think "Dixieland" as a description of a type of jazz came
> afterwards, having originally referred to "Southern USA" as a region.
>
> Bill Haesler, what do those old ODJB record labels say? I know that
> Armstrong's original 78's of "Potato Head Blues" and "Put Em Down
> Blues" say "Fox Trot" on the label. Likewise for Beiderbeck's "Rhythm
> King", Jazz Harmonizer's "Riverboat Shuffle", and Oliver's "Sweet
> Emmaline"
>
> Even the Wolverines "Fidgety Feet" says One Step on the label.
>
> It was simply danceable jazz, IMO, not "Dixieland" until after the
> songs were recorded, that term having been coined later, by others,
> rather than by the originators.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.barbonestreet.com
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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