Dixieland Jazz
New
Orleans Jazz ... ? Traditional Jazz ... ?
If you're an aspiring student of hot Dixieland jazz the pages around here should interest you. They're all about how hot jazz is played.
Have a look at the site map here to help find your way around.
There are four projects -
Louis Armstrong Transcriptions
Louis
Armstrong Transcriptions
Around 1900 something dramatic happened in New Orleans, a new music emerged which developed to an influential peak with the Hot 5 & Hot 7 recordings of Louis Armstrong. This was amazing music with an instant and lasting appeal. Listen - My Heart - wow!
Improvisation
Lessons
Listening to music is a pleasure but learning to play is much much more satisfying. Nobody said it was easy but it's well worth all the hard work!
'Band
in a Box' Songs - American Popular Songs & Lead Sheets
Dixieland Jazz has a strong tradition which builds on the wonderful American popular songs written during the first half of the twentieth century. You have to know the songs, inside out and upside down and every which way.
Jazz Tradition
A great tree of popular music has evolved from the early innovations in New Orleans. An initial attempt to map and piece together the network of pleasure that has emerged. Music to dance to?
PS
Smithy Lane Stompers - have a go,
do your own thing, make your own music ... that's jazz!? ... some personal escapades ...
our own bit of jazz, bags of enthusiasm lousy sound, we tried for our own meagre
pleasure and the gross
amusement of others ... it was only a bit of fun!