[Dixielandjazz] Let's Get This Dixieland Business Straight.

[Marek Boym]

How often was bebop featured there?
Wasnt the music a bit formulaic?
Not that it detracted from its greatness (even if someone, to my great
chagrine, described Condon's in the Mississppi Rag as something like
the temple of mediocricity).
Cheers

On 21/10/2009, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This about a year after Condon opened his own club in NYC. He was the
> premier "band marketer".
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> Eddie Condon quote from a Bill Gottlieb article in  Downbeat - October 7,
> 1946
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> "And let's get this Dixieland Business straight. I've never had a Dixieland
> band . . . or a Chicago band . . . or a New Orleans band . . . or any other
> style band. All I'm aware of is good jazz and bad jazz. Good jazz is
> improvised music, with each man playing in his own particular way,
> maintaining, of course, a certain amount of cooperation with the others.
> That's what we've always played. I never dictate any style or any anything
> to my guys except to name a tune and state the key. They have no
> restrictions other than to be themselves. They not only play the way they
> like, they can wear red suspenders, drink on the stand and show up in paper
> hats. I don't make them wear uniforms."
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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