[Dixielandjazz] He'p

[Patrick Cooke]

>>The trad stuff seems a bit more contained and, well, maybe a bit - heck,
I'll say it - boring.  More fun for the players than the audience.  The
"head arrangement" style seems a bit more lively and - consequently - more
fun.  At least for me.  For now.<<

    Bill, if you're reading charts to play trad or dixie, you're doing it
wrong!  I've been playing dixie for lots and lots of years.  I don't ever
remember playing it with a band that had to read their parts.
      Pat Cooke


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Biffle" <bbiffle at swcp.com>
To: "DJML Post" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] He'p


I've signed up for the Adult Traditional Jazz Camp at San Diego next
January - me, and my son-in-law, Jesse, who plays drums.  A recent attendee
loaned me a video of some of the classes - and some of the charts, too.
This is very stylized music.  Charts and such.  Very formal, really.  A bit
mannered, even.

The music we've been playing around here - and the music I hear on the
dozens of CDs I bought in the last couple of years - is much more
free-wheeling.  Trumpet plays - mostly  - the melody for the first chorus
whilst the tbone and clarinet play harmony, everybody solos for a while, all
play a hell-for-leather last chorus and hope to finish together somehow.
:-)}

So, I guess both are ok, just different, huh?  The trad stuff seems a bit
more contained and, well, maybe a bit - heck, I'll say it - boring.  More
fun for the players than the audience.  The "head arrangement" style seems a
bit more lively and - consequently - more fun.  At least for me.  For now.

I'm new, so be kind.

Thanks, in advance, for your comments.

Bill Biffle
Albuquerque, New Mexico


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