Trad jazz

London's Tranquil Valley Stompers, 1961.
"Traditional jazz" redirects here. For the original style of jazz, see Dixieland. For the dance, see Jazz dance.
Trad jazz
Humphrey Lyttelton, an advocate for the trad jazz revival
Typical instruments

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s,[1] based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style. Prominent English trad jazz musicians such as Chris Barber, Freddy Randall, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine[1] performed a populist repertoire that also included jazz versions of pop songs and nursery rhymes.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Shipton, Alyn (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 3 (2 ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 775. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.