[Dixielandjazz] Maryland My Maryland - Was O Tannenbaum

Marek Boym marekboym at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 15:23:47 PST 2010


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> The music that pianist George Webb played in London in 1941 with his first
> band, Spider Webb and His Cobs, was the first “English”
> With the name changed
> to George Webb’s Dixielanders, the Webb band became the citadel of jazz
> retrogression. Webb’s piano playing, based broadly on that
> of Jelly Roll Morton, tended to trundle rather than to swing.

Hello Steve,
This sounds to me like calling the Renaissance retrogression.

Merry Xmas and happy New Year,
Marek
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