Ewan Bleach

Ewan Bleach Quartet: Ewan, The Night 'n The Music

by Richard J Salvucci
March 24, 2022

There are probably very people around in 2022 who could claim to remember a jazz controversy that pitted “moldy figs" against “progressives." In the 1940s and the 1950s, provoked in part by the advent of bebop, but, going back to the swing era, partisans of what was termed “New Orleans" style jazz or, pejoratively, “Dixieland," were ostensibly pitted against the more modern styles. It was no joke. Guitarist Eddie Condon was said to have remarked (guess which school he was ...