Dixieland
Example Sentences
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He was not a musician himself but he loved jazz — straight-ahead and Dixieland — and swing most of all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025
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
The players transition into a Dixieland feel as the collective falls into chaos, challenging listeners to wake up.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
“It shows that, this isn’t just Dixieland, this isn’t a place where Confederate generals did this and that. This is a place where Black people have worked to liberate themselves.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 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
