Dixieland
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From the outset, the festival embraced musical diversity: big band, swing, ska, blues, Dixieland and bebop.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Robertson's rollicking guitar struggles for sonic space over the Dixieland jazz of "Ophelia," The Band's broadcast of nostalgia for a home that is lost.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
She stayed out of the spotlight until after they had graduated from high school, when she went to see the Dixieland trumpeter Al Hirt play in New Orleans.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
After attending art school, he worked in advertising and played drums on the side in Dixieland and jazz groups before joining Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated in the early 1960s.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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