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Trad jazz - Definition and Overview

Trad jazz, short for "traditional" jazz is a music genre popular in Britain and Australia from the 1940s onward through the 1950s and which still has enthusiasts today. It represented a recreation of the sounds and playing styles of New Orleans dixieland jazz. British and Australian bands of this genre copied the playing style of such artists as Sidney Bechet or King Oliver.

Opinions are divided about whether "trad jazz" is a valid name because one point of view would have it that jazz is a folk music tradition like any other, while the opposite point of view holds that jazz playing breaks loose from traditions and conventions so that, therefore, "traditional jazz" is a contradiction in terms.

See also:

Jazz | Jazz genres
Avant-jazz - Bebop - Dixieland - Calypso jazz - Cool jazz - Free jazz - Hard bop - Modal jazz - Jazz blues - Gypsy jazz - Chamber jazz - Milo jazz
Soul jazz - Swing jazz - Acid jazz - Jazz fusion - Jazz rap - Nu jazz - Latin jazz - Smooth jazz - Trad jazz - Mini-jazz - Creative jazz
Other topics
Musicians - Jazz standard - Jazz royalty


Example Usage of Trad
CliftonWiens: Hmm . Whether McLuhan? Not about Trad. book versus alt. forms of text, but rather text v. oral. I say text survives: http://bit.ly/8VCGqd
gidgetwidget: I want breakfast. 90 minutes until they start serving. Don't feel like oily eggs. Wish they had Huevos Rancheros. Or Trad. Eng. Bkfst
NRAand2ndAmend: Seventh Circuit Criminal Case of the Week: A Second Amendment ...: The fact that there is or is not a long Trad.. http://bit.ly/083bAbK
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