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JAZZ GRAMOPHONE RECORDS 119
East Coast stylists owed their inspiration to the Minton pioneers and to the great Basie band. This split has not, at the time of writing, been resolved.
After the dark days of the 'thirties, when Dixieland jazz was deep in the doldrums, Bing's brother Bob Crosby led a white band of erstwhile New Orleans musicians which was known as the 'Bobcats' ("South Rampart Street Parade" and "Dogtown Blues" on Brunswick 05067). Also, some of the New York jamsters gathered together under Muggsy Spanier's leadership (Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band on HMV DLP 1031). This could be regarded as a resurgence of New Orleans styled jazz, and briefly preceded the "revivalist" era.
The "revivalist" era began on the West Coast very early in the 'forties with Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band (Vol. 1 on Vogue LDE 038) with collectors, amateurs and a few ardent semi-professionals getting together to reproduce the acoustic sounds of the King Oliver and Morton bands of two decades earlier.
This new attitude amongst jazz lovers, who hitherto had confined their activities to the amassing of records alone, spread like wildfire, throughout the world. In England, the George Webb Dixielanders began making "revivalist" Dixieland jazz in Bexley-heath, Kent (Decca DFE 6351). Various minor schools of thought came into being and bands were formed which followed, on the one hand, Bunk |
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