[Dixielandjazz] Condon and "American Jazz".

[Marek Boym]

Whatever Condon might have said (and he was right), the recordings are
classics to this day.  Pity only the New Orleans ones are constantly
being reissued, and the swing ones (which Panassie considered less
important, because he considerd New Orleans "lost art" worthy of
preserving), with Franke Newton, Pete Brown and James P. Johnson are
rarely heard.
Cheers

On 10/07/2009, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Speaking about American views on Jazz, here's what Eddie Condon said about
> that in 1938 when French Jazz Critic Hugues Panassie came to America to
> supervise some recordings by American Musicians:
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> "I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to
> play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how
> to jump on a grape."
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