<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/23/2003 10:40:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com writes:<BR>
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Dan Spink comments:<BR>
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This "problem" of defining a type of music sounds very familiar to me by now. I used to assume there were workable definitions of modern jazz, traditional jazz, ragtime, classical and even popular music. Yet, every time I tried to pin it down the subject has exception after exception, contractions all over the floor and people arguing over what the type is about. Why don't we just agree that you can't pin it down too neatly? I know what I love and it's called traditional jazz, Dixieland, ragtime, stride piano, and sometimes barrelhouse, honky tonk or just blues. What's in a name?<BR>
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Dan (piano fingers) Spink<BR>
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