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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, noted for playing traditional New Orleans jazz, including Dixieland.
Dixieland
music
- Key People:
- Henry Allen
- Spike Jones
- Related Topics:
- jazz
- Chicago style
- New Orleans style
Dixieland, in music, a style of jazz, often ascribed to jazz pioneers in New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians. The term also refers to the traditional jazz that underwent a popular revival during the 1940s and that continued to be played into the 21st century. See also Chicago style, New Orleans style. New Orleans was not the only city where early jazz took root at the turn of the 20th century, but it was the centre of that musical activity, and most of the seminal figures of early jazz, Black and white, were ...(100 of 973 words)