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When I told a student of mine that I, too, had passed an examination in History when I was her age, she retorted, "But there was far less of it then".

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Yes, trad was very much a British phenomenon and had a major youth audience. The big names were Barber, Bilk and Ball. It also had a closely related cousin in the form of skiffle, an offshoot from the Barber band. There was also music of this sort in the US, even if it wasn't called trad. The names that come to mind are Bob Scobey, Lu Watters and the Firehouse Five. And, of course, Ory was still playing, not to mention the revival of George Lewis (new set of teeth, etc.) You'll recognize that, as a member of the opposite "modernist" camp, I viewed all this with a touch of hostility and ridicule, though I've long since grown out of that juvenile stance.

Yes, I started with these. UK editions, of course:

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Not then. Perhaps at an earlier date. In the era I'm talking about, Scott Hamilton was aged 5.

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Yes, I forgot about Loussier, no doubt because I never thought for a moment of buying one of his albums. Mind you, I dug the real J S Bach more in those days than I do now. P.S. Is your misspelling "lousier" deliberate?

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In the final years of the 50s the names used in the UK, and particularly in record stores, for different sorts of jazz were Trad(itional), Mainstream and Modern. There was also Progressive which seemed to consist largely of Stan Kenton and Shorty Rogers. There were also huge sales of albums of Bach with a jazz rhythm section, so much so that stores had a section just for this. The names Jazz Sebastain Bach and the Swingle Singers come to mind. He certainly was. Liverpool jazz humorist Steve Voce used to ask "Can Stanley dance?" as well as "Is Jutta hip?"

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It's music for people who dislike the sort of music I like.

If the Lees book I've bought (Waiting at Jim & Andy's) proves OK, I can borrow from the local public library his Waiting for Dizzy, Cats of Any Color and his Herman biography.

At the time (c.1960) this style was known as mainstream and many of my friends of those days were into mainstream, rather than "modern". Survivors of the Basie Old Testament band of the late thirties were prominent in this movement. I was lucky enough to see in 1959 a band with a front line of Buck Clayton, Emmet Berry, Dickie Wells, Earl Warren and Buddy Tate. I don't remember the rhythm section, except that it didn't include Sir Charles. Here they are in a great album: