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Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.
Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.
" Dixie ", also known as " Dixie's Land ", " I Wish I Was in Dixie ", and other titles, is a song about the Southern United States first made in 1859. It is one of the most distinctively Southern musical products of the 19th century. It was not a folk song at its creation, but it has since entered the American folk vernacular.
Dixieland, in music, a style of jazz, often ascribed to jazz pioneers in New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians.
With this in mind, it’s likely that “Dixie” and “Dixieland” first emerged as slang terms to refer to the territory south of Jeremiah Dixon’s boundary line. Yet another theory traces Dixie’s roots...
Join us for a journey back in time to discover 10 of the best Dixieland Jazz artists and the recordings that they made.
“Dixieland” or “Hot Jazz” is a style of jazz developed in New Orleans at the start of the twentieth century. The rhythms and variations played in the city’s Congo Square sowed the seeds for “Hot Jazz”, later to be known as “Dixieland”.
A subgenre of American jazz, Dixieland Jazz was developed in the early 20th century. It draws on four major influences including ragtime, blues, gospel and military brass bands. The biggest difference between what many consider traditional jazz and Dixieland jazz is Dixieland’s use of “collective improvisation.”
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's first recording in Feb. 1917 is often cited as the first jazz record ever, but critic Kevin Whitehead says that the roots of jazz stretch a little further back.
The primary feature of Dixieland jazz is “collective improvisation,” that is, rather than each musician taking a solo in turn (as in most styles of jazz today), Dixieland jazz musicians all improvise at the same time.