[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 7, Issue 32

[Richard Broadie]

Nice analysis, as usual, Steve.   I'm not interested in how many ghost bands
and groups there are so long as no one's rights are being infringed upon,
and professional quality is maintained.

You mention that you have a pool of 40 excellent musicians to draw from.
This makes me greatly jealous.  12 years ago I was leader of the Dixie 111
Jazz Band and had a pool of about 20 good players to draw from.  On my photo
site most of them are with me in a photo taken about 10 years ago..  Of the
15 or so in the picture, 3 of us are now alive.  I'm finding it almost
impossible to find enough "live" quality musicians to book a gig.
Consequently I've turned to technology, my Roland XP 50 digital work
station, where I've made arrangements where I can turn any instruments on or
off, perform and ad lib on the keyboard or on acoustic instruments, usually
tenor sax and clarinet, and pull off a pretty good trad presentation as a
one man band.   So far I'm not popular enough to where bi-location is
required to fill my schedule.  And I've had no problems with people
pretending to me elsewhere.  I'm inclined to believe, with my limitations,
this is very unlikely to happen!  But it's fun to dream!  Dick B


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 7, Issue 32

>
> Yeah, right. Tell that to the people who were there in Wilmington Delaware
> having a great time with Preservation Hall. Tell them they were defrauded.
Or
> go to New Orleans and tell the people who were in Preservation Hall that
night
> that Greg Stafford is a fraud.
>
> These players are PROFESSIONALS. They deliver what their audience wants
and
> they do it consistantly. Wake up folks and stop being jealous of their
> achievements. They satisfy more audience every year than any other OKOM
band in
> the USA, if not the world except, maybe, for Cullum. And I know some of
you
> disparage Cullum because that band sometimes plays things you don't
consider
> either OKOM or Jazz. Another mistaken belief.
>
> Folks, in all our elitism we still need to realize that we 400 people on
the
> DJML don't count in the jazz world. Not even a blip on the radar screen,
But,
> bands like Cullum's and Preservation Hall do count. What they do is far
beyond
> what we do.  And for us to bitch about PHJB is simply ludicrous prattle.
>
> Don't like them? Don't like their web site? Fine, get your TS card punched
by
> the Chaplin.
>
> Cheers,