New Orleans Revival

Swing players who are king and the Dixieland players who are trying to revive what they think of as "real" Jazz but ... what's this up on the horizon? It's Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie who are sowing the seeds of what will take Jazz over in the next few years! Bop rebellion is beginning because many excellent young black players are getting irritated that the whites are making most of the money in Jazz.
The Dixieland revival has two schools - 
1) Those committed to Armstrong, Oliver and Morton and 
2) Those committed to Bix and the midwesterners. Dixieland is not really New Orleans music. It has a 4 beat ground beat instead of a 2 beat ground beat to give it a speedier feel. There are other differences. Dixieland is primarily a white movement.
Bunk Johnson (1879 - 1949)
Lu Watters 
Yerba Buena Jazz Band returns to New Orleans roots-- San Francisco Dixieland style.
British Trad - Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Humphrey Lyttelton ... 
imitators can become innovators ... 
Louis Armstrong started by imitating Joe Oliver - but ended up doing new things ... 
Jelly Roll started imitating the jerky Ragtime pianists - but ended up playing a new relaxed smooth swinging jazz
Interestingly 'The Beatles' started by picking up guitars and imitating ...- in 1956 all the kids did it, all the rage in England was the 'Skiffle' craze (1956 to 58) 1 in 9 of all kids played in a Skiffle Group, you couldn't be Bill Haley or Elvis but you could play Skiffle, you only needed a wash board and a 'tea chest' bass and a guitar, sales went from 5,000 to 250,000 and importantly only 3 chords, advertised as 'play in a day' !!
In 1958 there were 40,000 Skiffle Groups in England ...
The thing was started by 'trad' jazz players Colyer and Barber and their banjo player Lonnie Donegan who were imitating the folk music of the rural blacks of US, Leadbelly ...
But it was 'too simple' it didn't pull the girls like Elvis did ... so The Beatles then started innovating writing 'rock' songs with 'strange' structures and chord sequences which were 'suitable' for guitars but foreign to the 'circle of 5ths' ear tradition - the girls loved it !!