There is no other sound quite like Dixieland.
New Orleans is well-known as the birthplace of American jazz but lesser-known is the Crescent City’s connection to Dixieland Jazz - a uniquely NOLA mashup between traditional jazz and ragtime. While the differences between the two are subtle, they’re worth noting so that your next music-fueled trip to NOLA can be done like a pro.
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Here’s Louis Armstrong in 1964, with “Basin Street Blues.”
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For anyone who wants it, this is a brief (less than 3 minutes), amusing tutorial on Dixieland:
For a contemporary example of that Dixieland sound, I can think of nothing better than this version of the classic “Struttin’ with Some Barbeque,” sung by Catherine Russell:
It’s that “collective, polyphonic improvisation” that gives Dixieland its huge appeal:
[Dixieland] is a reference to the "Old South", specifically anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. The term encompasses earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, biguine, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation. While instrumentation and size of bands can be very flexible, the "standard" band consists of a "front line" of trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet, with a "rhythm section" of at least two of the following instruments: guitar or banjo, string bass or tuba, piano, and drums. Louis Armstrong's All-Stars was the band most popularly identified with Dixieland during the 1940s, although Armstrong's own influence during the 1920s was to move the music beyond the traditional New Orleans style.
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Here’s a really early example: King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band playing “Dippermouth Blues” (1923):
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Each instrument in a Dixieland Jazz Band has its particular role:
a. The trumpet or cornet plays the jazzed-up melody
b. The clarinet embellishes the melody
c. Usually the trombone embellishes the base line but sometimes the melody, adds to the rhythm with a backbeat, and does sound effects
d. Piano and banjo (or guitar) play chords
e. String bass or tuba plays the bass line
f. Drums keep the beat steady and pumping
All of that was cribbed from here: www.jazzinamerica.org/...
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Can’t forget the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, at Preservation Hall — “Tailgate Ramble” (trombone sound effects on full display):
Jazzfuel nails it:
Collective, polyphonic improvisation is a key component [of Dixieland], with the frontline instruments all playing interweaving lines around the melody to create a joyful cacophony of sounds.
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Can’t argue with “joyful cacophony” because it sure is.
This one is just pure fun. I guess the group is Tuba Skinny? The tune is “Jubilee Stomp,” and it was taped on Royal Street in 2018:
What happens when the guys from Preservation Hall meet the Cincinnati Pops?
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