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Thread #121107   Message #2641089
Posted By: Azizi
26-May-09 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: Paul Whiteman-King of Jazz?
Subject: RE: Paul Whiteman-King of Jazz?
I hasten to say that I really am not clear about what I meant by "Dixieland jazz song" (other than a jazzed up version of "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "classical jazz song".
Maybe the latter is what matt milton,Rick S and others mean by "orchestrated jazz". But if I had to think of an example of an orchestrated jazz song by name, I'm so unfamiliar with jazz that I couldn't do so.

That said, I had the pleasure of experiencing a concert of Sun Ra and his orchestra in Newark, New Jersey (either 1967 or 1968). The thing I remember the most about that concert was the theatrics and the loud mishmash of sounds. I knew that it was an Experience with a capital "E", but I can't say that I was/am a   fan of Sun Ra.