Just as the '80s saw a hard bop/post-bop revival that was unofficially led by Wynton Marsalis, the '40s and '50s saw a Dixieland revival. As a rule, the artists who came out of the Dixieland revival movement of the '40s and '50s had no interest in playing bebop, which was new and cutting-edge at the time. They were unapologetically retro, and their playing was a throwback to the New Orleans and Chicago jazz of the '10s and '20s. One of the Midwestern bands that came out of that Dixieland revival movement was the Original Salty Dogs, which was formed at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, in 1947.
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