[Dixielandjazz] Condoning

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

As regards the query about preference of banjo-tuba, this might reflect the lack of awareness among the people playing the instruments. And I don't just mean the tuba-ist and banjoist...  Long ago a heavyweight US band came to Edinburgh, gentlemen of a certain avoirdupoids all looking like retired army ossifers (officers ossified) with the exception of a very young tuba player, musically worth the rest of them put together. But he was like the people Dick Hyman remembered before he heard European musicians of the banjo-tuba or even Condonian varieties. Dud repertoire albeit with Saints present -- Hyman was startled by the non-hackneyed repertoire in EuropePerhaps you need to have Messrs. Stacy and Freeman etc. to play vigorously Condonite music --but it does not help mortals who might or might not be lesser but have never even heard of these men.
They call it Dixieland when it isn't Probably they get it right in not calling some music jazz 
perhaps they neither flat nor sink enough fifths ?
Robert R. Calder