[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland

[Marek Boym]

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

>
> Well said/stirred Pat:
>

> IMO there are no absolutes. For example it is not ALWAYS the performance of
> a song that places it in a jazz or not category. Proof of that? The jazz
> tunes that have been written specifically as jazz. Songs that Thelonious
> Monk wrote. Songs that Charlie Parker wrote etc., ad infinitum. They are
> jazz no matter who plays them how.

They are jazz no matter who plays them - but there are no absolutes?
Does anybody but me detect a contradiction?  And they are not.  When
played by a symphony orchestra, or taken up by popular singers, they
become their style rather than jazz.
>
> Heck, I'm not even sure that Bourbon Street Parade written around 1944 does
> not fit into the written specifically for jazz category.
>
Cheers