[Dixielandjazz] Reply Dan and Tom

[Harry Epp]

Hi All: 
There are several bands that are taking a new approach to OKOM. It is a
shame that the "Wooden Nickle" Has disbanded. they had  completely new
ideas. That was refreshing even though I didn't care for some of their
tempi.

There also is the Fulton St Jazz Band who are not afraid to innovate. I
am sure there are more.
I would like to hear about them. 

I have gone through many stages in my 47 years in the business. Louie,
Jelly Roll, Bix, ODJB,
Tiny Parham, Junie Cobb, the NO Owls, Lu Watters Etc So I think I have a
knowlege of a wide variety of music.

I'm always ready for something new.
Respectively 
Harry Epp
Muskat Ramblers
Ft Lauderdale FL



> 
> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:36:16 EDT
> From: TCASHWIGG at aol.com
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
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> In a message dated 8/3/03 10:26:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> DWSI at aol.com 
> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Bert, if I may disagree, I think this is what is wrong with 
> Dixieland today. 
> > 
> > We're not adding songs of our own, interpretations of our own, in 
> short, our 
> > 
> > own music and variations. Why do we have to play ONLY the good 
> museum 
> > pieces? 
> > Can't we mix it up and invent along the way?
> > 
> > Dan (piano fingers) Spink
> > 
> 
> Sure we can Dan,
> 
> And, those that don't are the ones who are unemployed perpetually, 
> and crying 
> the loudest.
> 
> Many of the so called OKOMers on this list are not ever going to 
> change, they 
> had frontal lobotomies thirty or forty years ago and refuse to even 
> look out 
> the window at the world as it is today. Many of them certainly have 
> no vision 
> as to what the future might even remotely become, with the probable 
> exception 
> of one thing, "there won't be any OKOM."  Many of these same folks 
> have never 
> been creative musically, but rather spent their entire careers just 
> imitating 
> the long gone greats and trying to play note for note exactly the 
> same music.
> 
>   But yes there will be and unfortunately the people who will be 
> enjoying it 
> then are not these folks because they will be gone.  The basic 
> problem is that 
> these folks are rapidly being forced to face their own mortality 
> realities 
> and are relating it to the death of Dixieland and OKOM and life as 
> they once 
> enjoyed it.
> 
> They will be partly correct about this however because it will no 
> longer be 
> OKOM but TKOM (Their Kind of Music) it is our duty to make sure they 
> get some 
> continued exposure to what we like to call OKOM so that it becomes 
> TKOM too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom Wiggins
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