[Dixielandjazz] Re: Simultaneous Appearances - Was Riverboat Schedule

[Stephen Barbone]

Thank you for your "permission" to multiple book. Like it really
matters. As for the rest of your message, it speaks for itself and I am
ROTFLMAO.

Cheers,
Steve

Jazzjerry at aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 12/7/03 3:44:17 pm, barbonestreet at earthlink.net
> writes:
>
>
> > Unfortunately popularity does not necessarily equate with quality.
> >
> > How can you claim people have contempt for the audience, and then
> state
> > the above which is pure, elitist, contempt for the audience?
> >
>
> Thou dost surely jest!. Just because MacDonalds is probably the worlds
> most
> popular restaurant chain surely does not endow the unhealthy junk food
> they
> serve with real quality? Surely because Adolph Hitler was very popular
> indeed in
> Germany before World War II this does not make him a 'quality leader'.
> Kenny G
> is I believe very popular in the United States (Not thankfully in this
>
> country though!) but the DJML has been full of messages over the years
> which do not
> suggest that many members think he plays 'quality' jazz.
>
> "Why not visit them in Pori"
>
> Where?
>
> "Is that "perpetuation of a myth" not what "traditional" jazz, OKOM,
> is
> all about?"
>
> No is my answer to this point. The bands that travel around the States
> and Uk
> and probably else where playing note for note recreations the music of
> the
> Glenn Miller Orchestra whilst dressed in WWII American uniforms - now
> they are
> perpetuating a myth. In my book real jazz musicians, whatever style
> they play,
> in should be seeking to express themselves through their playing and
> their
> art. Surely playing of jazz, or for that matter any form of creative
> playing,
> should me regarded by those doing it as more than simply a 'job'. A
> well known
> American musician told me not that long ago that as a young musician
> he had
> received some excellent advice which was 'if playing jazz simply
> becomes a job and
> maybe even a chore then that is the time to give up'.
>
> "What is the difference? between "name" and "quality". Who defines
> quality? You, or the rest of the world?"
>
> Of course I and others define quality. That is why I read what is
> usually
> termed a 'quality' newspaper rather than one which sells the greatest
> number of
> copies each day and is referred to by many others as part of the
> 'gutter
> press'.
>
> I think that it is time to move on from this discussion as we are
> never going
> to get anywhere near agreeing. If you can get away with your policy of
>
> multiple bands then so be it.