In the latter 1940s there had been a revival of "Dixieland" music, harkening back to the first contrapuntal New Orleans style. This was driven largely by record company reissues of early jazz classics by the Oliver, Morton, and Armstrong bands of the 1930s. There were 2 populations of musicians concerned in the revival. One group consisted of players who had started their careers playing in the standard style, and were either returning to it, or continuing what they'd been playing all along ,eg Bob Crosby's Bobcats, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Condon, and Wild Bill Davison. The majority of this group were initially Midwesterners, though there were a low number of New Orleans musicians concerned. The second population of revivalists consisted of young musicians like the Lu Watters band. By the late 1940s, Louis Armstrong's Allstars band turned into a leading ensemble. Thru the 1950s and 1960s, Dixieland was one of the most commercially preferred jazz styles in the States, Europe, and Japan, though critics paid small attention to it.