[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 93, Issue 38

[Marek Boym]

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> Call it Jazz.  That's what it is. I tell people I play jazz, they start saying they don't
> know much about it, but they know who Dizzy Gillespie was.  I tell them I don't play that
> kind of jazz, I play things like you'd hear in 1928 or so, and they say "so you play
> dixieland, not jazz."


Now that IS funny!  When a jazz friend of mine told her dad that she
liked Benny Goodman, he said "but that's swing, not jazz," since to
him the term "jazz" implied traditional; since he was from New York,
probably mor Eddie Condon than Lu Watters.

Cheers