[Dixielandjazz] Is Nick LaRocca the creator of Jazz

[David Richoux]

I was just going through some boxes of old magazines and stuff - found  
a copy of the New Orleans Gambit from 1989 (Jazzfest edition) that has  
an article about the whole Nick La Rocca controversy by Ronnie Virgets  
(local author and TV personality.)  I looked for text of it on-line  
but with not much luck.

I will attempt a scan and text conversion, but the software for that  
is still not the greatest!

Dave Richoux

On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:18 PM, John Petters wrote:

> Hi Marek,
> Whilst I disagree with La Rocca's claim to be the inventer of jazz,  
> same as I disagree with Jelly, it is easy for folk to overlook what  
> he did achieve.
> The ODJB was a hard driving band. Yes their improvisations may have  
> been limited - but these were early days and the world had not had  
> the joy of Armstrong.
> Notice how rhthmically free the band was compared to early Fletcher  
> Henderson for example - or the the Wolverines.