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[[File:TVS5.jpg|thumb|London's Tranquil Valley Stompers, 1961.]] {{Short description|Form of jazz in the United States and Britain in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s}} {{redirect|Traditional jazz|the original style of jazz|Dixieland|the dance|Jazz dance}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Trad jazz | native_name = | etymology = | other_names = | image = Humphrey Lyttelton blowing his trumpet.jpg | alt = | caption = [[Humphrey Lyttelton]], an advocate for the trad jazz revival | stylistic_origins = | cultural_origins = | instruments = * [[Trumpet]]s * [[trombone]]s * [[clarinet]]s * [[banjo]]s * [[double bass]]es * [[drum]]s * [[electric guitar]]s * [[pipe organ]]s * [[saxophone]]s * [[electric bass]]es * [[piano]]s * [[electric organ]]s | derivatives = | subgenres = | subgenrelist = | fusiongenres = | regional_scenes = | local_scenes = | other_topics = }} <!--[[File:Humphrey Lyttelton blowing his trumpet.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Humphrey Lyttelton]], an advocate for the trad jazz revival]]--> '''Trad jazz''', short for "traditional jazz", is a form of [[jazz]] in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s,<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book |last1=Shipton |first1=Alyn |editor1-last=Kernfeld |editor1-first=Barry |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |page=775|volume=3 |edition=2 }}</ref> 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]]<ref name="New Grove" /> performed a populist repertoire that also included jazz versions of pop songs and nursery rhymes.<ref name="New Grove" />
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