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Dody in Dixieland / John Bubbles [concert]

Title

Dody in Dixieland [Concert]

Performers

Bubbles, John

Goodman, Dody

Published/Created

1958-02-01

Genre

Concert

Venue

Carnegie Hall

Abstract

John W. Bubbles "a vaudeville performer" on a bill of forty-odd musicians that included Harlem Stride pianist Willie the Lion Smith, swing big-band musicians (Charlie Shavers, Tyree Glenn, Cozy Cole and Roy Eldredge).

Dody Goodman, an attractive comedienne who lent her name to the festivities, and who came onstage sporadically to trade quips with the MC, did a soft-shoe routine with Mr. Bubbles that was announced as "Cavalcade of the Dance."

Dixieland music, defined by "a small band made up of white musicians who depended on the high-heeled collective improvisation performed around the time of World War I by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band." Didn't include "New Orleans" jazz which originated in the late twenties by such men as Dave Tough, Jimmy McPartland, Bud Freeman, and Frank Teschemacher as solo music that foreshadowed the swing era…now embodies all these distinct types…as well as various new "revivalist" groups… scarecrow imitations such early New Orleans-style groups as King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton.

Whitney Balliett writes that "New York City overflowed with jazz concerts in the fifties and sixties. Rarely a weekend went by without a concert at Carnegie Hall or Town Hall or Merkin Hall, and they were of every school. Many, like the above, were dispensible, and even silly. But they helped to keep the music up front." (Afternote to "Melee" in WB Collected Works, 45.)

Source

Balliett, Whitney: Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000. St. MartinÕs Press (2000).

Last Updated: 12-16-2015