Danny Barker Smithsonian Interview Block 383 (Q13949)

That's where the dixieland come in. Show business on the stage. You can't do that on the stage. It's dull on the stage. So you put on a stripey shirt and a straw hat and you blast out. That's show business. But authentic New Orleans jazz is poor people in a nightclub, in a cabaret, a man with some money in his pocket and a beautiful woman, and he wants to get up on the floor. He wants to dance ...