Donahue, Michael
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"...About 550 people spent a lazy afternoon yesterday walking to the various stages and enjoying some fine jazz music from both out-of-town and local musicians. -- A busboy could be seen in the service area at No. 1 Beale Street dancing up a storm to the Buck Creek Band's version of a Bessie Smith song, 'Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town.' A waitress at the same restaurant finally just gave in and danced as she brought food and drinks to her customers. -- Many of the crowd probably were pleasantly surprised that the music played at the festival wasn't strictly Dixieland. -- George 'Doc' Ryan, festival chairman, originator of the event and a cornet player in his Memphis band, The Hot Cotton Jazz Band, defined 'traditional jazz': 'It's the jazz that was developed in America between 1900 and 1939. It includes ragtime, the blues and Dixieland in several versions: Chicago, New Orleans and West Coast and some early swing of the 1930s. Dixieland is just one part of that.'..."
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![Helen Elizabeth Jones [trombonist with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm] [black-and-white photoprint]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/748893fe45c0ee7c7203fd1fe23d091b76cf8a02.png "Helen Elizabeth Jones [trombonist with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm] [black-and-white photoprint]")
