Dixieland

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Robertson's rollicking guitar struggles for sonic space over the Dixieland jazz of "Ophelia," The Band's broadcast of nostalgia for a home that is lost.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

She stayed out of the spotlight until after they had graduated from high school, when she went to see the Dixieland trumpeter Al Hirt play in New Orleans.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2022

He was particularly drawn to the traditional jazz, or Dixieland, of trombonist Kid Ory, who had performed with Louis Armstrong in New Orleans before 1920.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

The term Dixie, or Dixieland, which was also sung about in Elvis's epic American Trilogy, derives from the states around the Mason-Dixon line.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2020

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall