[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland

[Pat Ladd]

performance of a song is what places it in a jazz or not category.>>

Twas ever thus. This from Humph Lyttleton `It just occured to me`
This was in response by Ellington to critics of Ellingtons Concerts in 1958 
`that they did not contain enough jazz`
"When Armstrong plays `Pennies from Heaven` or Hawkins plays `Body and 
Soul`, they call it jazz.
When Duke Ellington plays Ellington they say it is not.
I don`t understand that"

Humph also makes the point that  the Cotton Club where Ellingtons Band 
presided....was redolent with jazz. Yet many of the performers, Florence 
Mills, Ethel Waters,Bojangles Robinson, Adelaide Hall would not now be 
acknowledged as jazz artists at all.

Just to stir the pot.

Cheers

Pat