[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland v. Trad Jazz

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

well! if he's callin' Louis Armstrong a white guy with no soul, them's
fightin' words...


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Les Elkins <leslie.r.elkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> One of the things I heard at the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp a couple
> of years ago was an instructor saying "'Dixieland' is music played by old
> white guys, too fast, with no soul". I *think* that was said tongue in
> cheek, but I didn't follow up on the comment....
>
> (Discussion of appropriate tempos for tunes is another can of worms, but I
> have let that comment percolate for a while and it has, to a large extent,
> moderated my idea of the ideal tempo for most tunes. When I'm the one
> counting them off, anyway.)
>
> -Les Elkins
>
> --
> "NEVER use a maj7 chord in any bar that is named after a deceased
> NASCAR driver, a large-calibre firearm, or an intoxicated farm
> animal."
> -Rev. Billy C. Wirtz's Universal Chord Law
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