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Sad to think that might have been his last gig.

Agreed on this one. Swirling was a real surprise. This feels like leftovers.

I was surprised to find that this was a 60s one. The cover has such a perfect 80s look to it.

Sounds like bad news from Mr. Brotzmann. Sending him thoughts and wishes for as full a recovery as possible.

Dutch Swing College Band – Dutch Swing College On Tour (Philips, 1960) I enjoyed this one.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Live: Mardi Gras In Montreux (Rounder, 1986)

Thanks both. Some good looking records to explore! Any recommendations falling within this category would also be much appreciated.

I am really enjoying Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's at the moment. I would really appreciate any recommendations for where to go next (ideally, specific Laps or EPs or volumes, rather than box sets).

Thinking about it, do we even have a thread on the forum relating to the classic jazz revival in any of its forms? It is a subject that interests me from an historical perspective. Seems bizarre that we would not, but I have tried looking.

That's the one! On bandcamp.

Jason Moran - From the Dancehall to the Battlefield

Playfield - Volume 3 (2021, Orbit 577)

What are they?

Turk Murphy's Jazz Band – Turk Murphy's San Francisco Jazz Vol. 1 Dipping my toe into various forms of classic jazz revival at the moment. More for self-education than anything. I find Turk Murphy quite difficult to handle, in contrast to Eddie Condon or the New Orleans old timers. This stuff seems quite slick, hermetically sealed and tonally unlike the Hot 5s/7s or the Bix gang (who I assume they're emulating). Maybe its more influence from Jellyroll or just an excess in proficiency. Perhaps others have more insight.

I hadn't realised that France had suffered so severely in the jazz wars. I think that I had naively assumed that the French jazz fan public quickly embraced bop.

Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Skiffle Group – New Orleans Joys

Hadn't listened to Turn It Over before. It is really good. Chaotic and with too many vocals but still really strong.

That’s good. I dilly dallied on this one and missed out last time.

I mean, why, at that particular time in the UK was Dixieland revival type music not just a reasonable scene but actually chart topping?

Thank you, for a really brilliant answer. Are there any LPs that stand out for you? It seems like it was a singles genre: Bad Penny Blues to Stranger on the Shore standing out as singles more than albums. But still, it lasted well into the LP era. I have also found this thread, which has some good recollections too. And some discussion on the perennial trad jazz question: why trad jazz?

Donated. Always pleased when it is for a good cause.

The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson – Soul Sound System Love this one. Real Atlantic stuff.

Intended as a sort of greasy toupee-wearing alcoholic uncle of the thread from around a year ago relating to European bop / modernism. My understanding (and I was strictly not there, so please correct me) is that most Western European countries developed explosively popular jazz scenes in the shell-shocked years of post World War 2 recovery, mostly seeking to follow the model of what in the USA was the Dixieland revival. In the UK, pseudo-New Orleans revivalist "trad" was a huge deal. For a Londoner of my generation (came of age late 90s), it was known primarily as the long forgotten music that your parents hated, and for being mocked by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band for reasons that were no longer apparent. Plus for the fact that it had generated elder statesmen who were still on TV and BBC radio but who rarely played any actual music. My father in law, who was a war baby, died a few years ago and left us a bunch of LPs, many of them trad. Listening to it, it strikes me how amateurish the scene was (partly deliberately I assume) and how adulterated the 'jazz' edges were - so much pop or boogie woogie in the sound that it sometimes veered on early rock n roll - and by how little it sounded like contemporaneous US classic jazz and dixieland scenes (whether the USA revival's poles of New Orleans and Chicago authenticity, New York folk revivalist Carnegie Hall studiousness or the dreaded varsity / fraternity stuff). The UK stuff sounds very grubby and bone headed. It seems that essential to the whole concept was a rain-soaked and bombed out vision of some sort of mythic vision of America that was too uninformed tell the difference between a riverboat gambler and a cowboy. It is difficult to understand how it could have been so popular. Who listened to this stuff? My understanding is that there were similar scenes in France and Germany at least. I don't know whether they developed among different lines though. I know that Stephanie Grappelli aged into an elder statesman role across the channel, and I suppose that the presence of Bechet may have had an effect on any French scene. I also assume that contemporaneously there must have been an accompanying big band 'dance music' scene, but for whatever reason that music does not get mentioned much. Presumably the Beatles and the Boomer generation's coming of age is what wiped this stuff out. It was and still is a constant presence in discount bins over here. I'd be interested in any members views on the music in general, and their memories of it. Particularly those members who are from Europe or experienced it at the time or during its occasional revivals. Also, are there any good records from the era that you think stand out? LPs in particular. Live albums, vocal and joint leader dates all welcome.

Always the best covers. I always had a soft spot for Wycliffe Gordon's playing. I started a thread for the era semi-recently. Still interest in any recommendations.

Thank you!