"Unsavory"?? Does this mean they still were worried about those stereotypes of Storyville brothels? Or the cliché of all jazz musicians being junkies? Nothing learnt after the best part of a century?
How prude can you be??
By that yardstick, what music WOULD they have accepted? Certainly not anything even remotely connected with Rap or Hip Hop, that "gibberish of criminals"?
My my ...