Trad jazz which is shorthand for "traditional jazz" (although that term is never actually used) may either refer to a music genre popular in Britain and Australia from the 1940s onward through the 1950s, or to the American "hot jazz" of the 1920s and early 1930s, which developed from the New Orleans and Ragtime styles of music. The British and Australian bands of this genre copied the playing style of such artists as Sidney Bechet or King Oliver,...
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Trad jazz which is shorthand for "traditional jazz" (although that term is never actually used) may either refer to a music genre popular in Britain and Australia from the 1940s onward through the 1950s, or to the American "hot jazz" of the 1920s and early 1930s, which developed from the New Orleans and Ragtime styles of music. The British and Australian bands of this genre copied the playing style of such artists as Sidney Bechet or King Oliver, while the American genre is more properly exemplified by artists such as Red Nichols and Louis Armstrong.
Opinions are divided about whether "trad jazz" is a valid name because one point of view would have it that jazz is a folk music tradition like any other, while the opposite point of view holds that jazz playing breaks loose from traditions and conventions so that, therefore, "traditional jazz" is a contradiction in terms. Many jazz radio stations however, feature so-called "trad jazz" programs, and the term is widely and freely utilized...
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