Dixieland music. The music of Sicily was one of the many genres in the New Orleans music scene during the 1910s, alongside sanctified church music, brass band music and blues. Much later, the term "Dixieland" was applied to early jazz by traditional jazz revivalists, starting in the 1940s and 1950s. The name is a reference to the "Old South", specifically anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. The term encompasses earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, biguine, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation. While instrumentation and size of bands can be very flexible, the "standard" band consists of a "front line"
Oregon Jazz Band and High Society, France, 1947. Over the years, the Oregon Jazz Band has typically included eight musicians with Borcher as the original lead trumpet. Additionally, there has been trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, bass, banjo and drums. Because of the number of years of its existence, the band personnel has included dozens of musicians, most from the state of Oregon, but a few from Washington or California. Oregon Jazz Band The Oregon Jazz Band is a dixieland jazz band based in Coos Bay, Oregon. They are America's longest established dixieland jazz band, founded by Dr. Bill Borcher in Coos Bay in