[Dixielandjazz] ODJB

[Adaywayne at aol.com]

I agree 100% Steve. Players such as Davern, Kellso, Sandke, Barrett, Varro 
and dozens of others (including many on this forum) are strides ahead of their 
counterparts in the ODJB, in terms of both technique and improvisational 
skills. Perhaps Jery really meant to say (and if so, I would agree with him) that 
the ODJB were not, themselves, simply copiers of their "black" colleagues but 
inovaters in their own modest way. Don't you agree that they pulled together 
various aspects of New Orleans music of the time to from something "new".....or 
at least a "template" for OKOM bands to come, right up to this day?
Arn 
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In a message dated 11/16/03 9:04:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:
For most listeners, what is the point listening to a CD with a contemporary
clarinetist playing the exact Larry Shields part in "Original Dixieland One
Step?" If we've got Larry doing it, what do we gain by hearing another
clarinetist, or 50 other clarinetists doing it again. . . and again. . . and
again?