[Dixielandjazz] By Ned, we invented the genre:

[Marek Boym]

>
> > David Gannett said
> >
> > BY NED, WE INVENTED THE GENRE and play it BETTER than any other musicians
> > from anywhere else, because it's our own, home-grown music!
> >
>
> And then the fun started. <grin>
>
> BTW, Dave, I'm with you. Having grown up in NYC among the GIANTs, IMO, there
> has never been the equal of the Condon Bands et al, anywhere in the world
> since.
>
> Some US bands are close, and some are re-inventing the genre, especially the
> young buskers out there on the streets these day. No doubt they annoy the
> purists but then, that's the way it always was in jazz. The new folks annoy
> the old folks.
>
> Listmates who heard the many different players/ bands at Condon's joint on
> 3rd Street in the 1940s, 50s know exactly what I am talking about. It was
> pure energy. And those who listen to todays US bands (I'm talking about the
> buskers) are hearing the beginnings of a relevant Dixieland movement among
> the young.
>
> While I agree with the Aussies that Bob Barnard is wonderful, I would also
> opine  that Jon Erik Kellso, Randy Reinhart, Randy Sandke, Ed Polcer and
> countless other American jazz musicians, that most of us have never heard
> of, like Al Harrison, are also wonderful. To say nothing of the younger crop
> of musicians like Jonathan Russell.

All of which does not mean that foreign bands and musicians are not as
good, or better (as far as organized bands go - probably better).
Most European bands do not sound like a pastiche of a past era, but
rather reinvent the music like their American counterparts.

Plus, some of the top American musicians are expat Europeans: Tiony
Pringle, Keith Ingham, Derek Smith and, if my memory is not playing
tricks on me, Sonny Leyland.

Saying that jazz was invented by Americans and hence Americans play it
better is tantamount with saying that, since classical music and opera
originated in Europe, Europeans must play it better than americans or
Asians; yet a big proportion of the new classical stars does not come
from Europe.

Cheers