[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Tunes

[Marek Boym]

I have several Decca LPs from the '50's, and they still refer to many
of those tunes as "instrumental foxtrot" or "instrumental foxtrot with
vocal refrain>"
Cheers

On 14/05/2008, 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.
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> 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"
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> Even the Wolverines "Fidgety Feet" says One Step on the label.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.barbonestreet.com
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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