Traditional revival

Movement · late 1930s-1960s · San Francisco, New Orleans · Swing and big bands

A return to the New Orleans style (Bunk Johnson, Lu Watters, Turk Murphy), contemporary with bebop. Not to be confused with the Dixieland of 1917.

What is still debated

Baraka: some Black artists rejected it as nostalgic entertainment for a white audience. "Moldy figs" debate unsourced.

Where it comes from

• New Orleans jazz

What it gave rise to or influenced

• French jazz
• British jazz
• Dutch jazz

Artists

• Sidney Bechet (1897–1959, clarinet, soprano saxophone)
• Bunk Johnson (1889–1949, trumpet)
• George Lewis (1900–1968, clarinet)
• Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008, trumpet, clarinet)
• Kid Ory (1886–1973, trombone)

Tracks to start with

• Petite Fleur — Sidney Bechet (1952)
• Les oignons — Sidney Bechet (1949)
• When the Saints Go Marching In — Louis Armstrong (1938)

Sources

• EN : Trad jazz (Trad jazz revival)

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