[Dixielandjazz] Term 'Moldy Fig' in jazz

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In a message dated 23/06/2009 16:34:17 GMT Standard Time,  
doctordubious at verizon.net writes:

According to John Lowney, the term moldy figs was first used in  this sense
by Bernard Gendron in a 1942 editorial in Metronome magazine,  "'Moldy Figs'
and Modernists: Jazz at War".



The curator of the Tulane Jazz Archive in New Orleans, Bruce Boyd Raeburn  
Boyd Raeburn was his father) says in his book that It  was originally  
coined in a letter from a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Sam Platt, to Esquire  
magazine in 1945, although it was quickly taken up by Leonard Feather and Barry  
Ulanov.