[Dixielandjazz] Condon & Dixieland

[Stephen G Barbone]

> Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote
>
> Hi,
> Although we all know (or should know) that he wrote "We called it
> music" and was not too keen on calling his music Dixieland, he had no
> qualms about introducing "Royal Garden Blues" as a very common
> Dixieland song; those of you who get "Jazz of the Twenties" can find
> out.  I believe the redording comes from the early '60's.  Only two
> day ago I watched the entire session on a video cassette.

Yes indeed. Many times in live performance his would wise crack that  
what they were playing was "modern dixieland". I think he calls it  
that on one of the Mosaic re-issue songs, but without digging them out  
can't verify that.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband