[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 93, Issue 38

[Harry Callaghan]

I'm reminded of a guy I went to high school with in Baldwin, NY named Paul
Pettitt.  He always said, "Cats for to make kitten britches"




On 9/27/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >
> > 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
>
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.  Let him step to
the music which he hears, however measured or far away
   (The story of my life)
                           - Henry David Thoreau
                             (1817-1862)