[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland

[John Petters]

Pat said
> 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.

I certainly regard Ethel waters and Adelaide Hall as jazz artistes, the 
same as I regard Bing Crosby, Hoagy Carmicahel & Johnny Mercer.
John Petters
www.traditional-jazz.com
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ