moldy fig

"All Troizen to a moldy fig, I got this the way he hid it."

The beboppers, in response, called these traditionalists "moldy figs".

In the days when Be-bop was the new thing in jazz, people who liked traditional jazz used to be called moldy figs.

Official site of Moldy Fig Jazz Club

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The term moldy figs was first used in this sense by Barry Ulanov in a 1942 Metronome magazine editorial, titled "It's Not the Book, It's the Attitude."

This, it should be noted, is not just an arbitrary definition to fit the records available to Riverside, but was, and is, a view of jazz held by the truest and bluest of moldy figs.

Among those so inspired was Andrew McAusland, singer and guitarist for a punk band called the Moldy Figs, who lived on Third Avenue and Carroll Street in the early 90's.

2011, the Zack Lipton Band served as the house band at the Moldy Fig jazz club in New York City's Lower East Side, performing every Friday and Saturday at midnight.

More recently, Gene Santoro has referred to Wynton Marsalis and others, who embrace bebop but not other forms of jazz that followed it, as "latter-day moldy figs", with bebop now lying on the side of "jazz tradition".

The old schoolhouse has been enlarged to take in a restaurant, a wine bar (the Moldy Fig), a 300-seat concert venue and a 35-room hotel called the Ellington Lodge, with each room named after a jazzman who has featured at the club.

Moldy figs are purist advocates of early jazz, originally those such as Rudi Blesh, Alan Lomax, and James Jones who argued that jazz took a wrong turn in the early 1920s with developments such as the introduction of printed scores.

When Mr. Grauer and Mr. Keepnews founded Riverside Records in 1952, they might have been classified as "moldy figs," the term used then to identify and to derogate jazz fans whose interests were limited to the jazz styles of the 1920's and earlier.