[Dixielandjazz] Traditional? Dixie?

[Ron L'Herault]

I think "sweet" was in the sense of "proper", not swinging, with sheet music
the waltzes and such.

Ron L

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[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Robert Ringwald
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:18 PM
To: Ron
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Traditional? Dixie?

I knew and played with Pops Foster. What a wonderful nice guy he was. 

Perhaps the book was written with someone who is still alive who you could
ask?

Or someone such as John Gil can answer your questions. 

-Bob Ringwald



From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 9:39 AM
To: Bob Ringwald
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Traditional? Dixie?

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 ;)
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