[Tradjazz] Hello again

[GeoHunt1 at aol.com]

Hi Bruce:

You are right, everyone who becomes a jazz fan, before long becomes 
opinionated.  Trad Jazz?  Traditional Jazz?  To everyone on the Board of our jazz club, 
the Tri-State Jazz Society, Trad Jazz means something different; and we are 
all supposed to be jazz experts. 

Here is my definition of "Traditional Jazz": Jazz evolved in New Orleans, and 
was first identifiable as played by Buddy Bolden's New Orleans band sometime 
between 1900 and 1905. That style of music, as played in New Orleans between 
1905 and 1917 (and, of course it has been played there and everyplace else 
since then) is called "New Orleans Jazz".  Because of World War I and the 
associated closing of the Storyville New Orleans red light district, most of the 
musicians playing that style of music moved out of New Orleans, many - because of 
the availability of jobs - moved to Chicago.  Young Chicago musicians, upon 
hearing New Orleans Jazz, started playing their variation of it; and that is 
called "Chicago Jazz".  Any New Orleans Jazz or Chicago Jazz is called Dixieland 
Jazz.

I wrote all that to explain what "Traditional Jazz" is, and the answer is, 
"I'll be damned if I know".

What I was leading up to was going to define "Traditional Jazz" as the same 
as "New Orleans Jazz", and that doesn't sound right, does it?
I give up. 

How are you doing, Bruce?

George Hunt
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