[Dixielandjazz] Traditional? Dixie?

[Marek Boym]

I'd Assume, Gary, that it meant the "society" bands, such as Arman Piron's,
for example.
Cheers


On 6 April 2014 19:39, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com> wrote:

> on a related note, I encountered the following statement:
>
> *"Pops Foster: The Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman"*
>>
>> From about 1900 on, there were three types of bands playing in New
>> Orleans. You had bands that played ragtime, ones that played sweet music,
>> and the ones that played nothin' but blues. A band like John Robichaux's
>> played nothin' but sweet music and played the dirty affairs. On a Saturday
>> night Frankie Duson's Eagle Band would play the Masonic Hall because he
>> played a whole lot of blues. A band like the Magnolia Band would play
>> ragtime and work the District...All the bands around New Orleans would play
>> quadrilles starting about midnight. When you did that nice people would
>> know it was time to go home because things got rough after that.
>
>
> given that Nat Shilkret or Paul Whiteman's sort of 'sweet' was decades
> away, what did he mean by 'sweet'? Especially considering they'd take all
> the "dirty affairs" (which maybe also could stand some defining ;)
>