[Tradjazz] interesting overview of Dixieland Jazz

[Bruce McNichols]

Every once in a while, I take a moment and enter the world of Google (a fascinating place it is).  I looked up Smith Street Society (there we were), Muskrat Productions (there too) and Dixieland Jazz (if we're there, we ain't up top).
I checked out the listing for Dixieland Jazz - an Overview and came upon a very interesting thing. Check it out. Of course, I'm no expert but my lifetime has afforded me many impressions of our music, its origins and its permutations, and this seems to be a fairly accurate item.

I didn't delve into all the pages but I read the first one, which tells the basic facts. They covered the era of Storyville but didn't tell of it's closing (although maybe that comes later).

The itemizing of the various instruments, and when they came along, seems reasonable, although I wonder if anybody really knows the exact details.

I like the whole thing, as a primer about the music. 

GO TO: http://nfo.net/usa/JO.html   (copy it over to your web browser)

ALSO:  Google dixieland jazz, for much more.

McN