British trad jazz purists used to end up beside themselves in fury if anyone tried to introduce a saxophone into the lineup. Indeed, when the Humphrey Lyttleton band tried it some bright spark hung a banner from the upper circle at one of their concerts. It read "Dirty Bopper". Little did these geezers realise it but in New Orleans, genuine New Orleans jazz bands had been using saxes for years with no fuss whatsoever.

Then again, British trad jazz fell on hard times in the mid 1960s. The high priest of mouldy figdom in those days was a man called Brian Rust (who did some very valuable work compiling discographies of the stuff by the way). In the middle of the the trad boom collapse, a magazine, conducting its annual Critics Poll, asked Rust to nominate the ten best jazz albums of the past year. Rust retorted "There have been no jazz records issued in the last year".

BTW., I can remember a few Dylan purists getting very uptight when the poor lad went electric - including the cry of "Judas" at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.