Klarinet Archive - Posting 001157.txt from 1998/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman/Jazz Clarinet
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:24:53 -0400

At 10:43 AM 7/27/98 -0700, Lisa Clayton wrote:
>You're probably right. The labels, they've always confused me. I've gotten
>the impression that it went Rag, Traditional, Swing, Bebop and then it
>split into cool and free, and then there was a bunch who revived the old
>Trad jazz sound but added a swingy feel to it and it became "dixieland"
>(Bunk Johnson, Lu Watters, Turk Murphy, etc). Then there was M-base,
>fusion, modern, avant garde. You get to today and every little band on the
>cutting edge seems to have their own little label: trip hop, acid jazz,
>new Jack swing, nouveau cocktail, space-age music, world jazz, etc. Which
>only goes to show you how little labels really help you sort out musical
>trends.
>
The people who think "Dixieland" is a pejorative term prefer the word
"Traditional." Other than that, they are pretty much the same thing.

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