[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 11, Issue 45

[Mike Durham]

Steve, will forward your terms and email/website addresses to the guys I 
know.

Mike.

>From: Stephen Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 11, Issue 45
>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:52:10 -0500
>
> > From: "Mike Durham" <mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com> wrote (polite snip)
> >
> > Tom: far from chastisement, British and European audiences are DESPERATE 
>to
> > see and hearr anyone playing OKOM who is  black, and especially young 
>and
> > black. We are desperately keen to see any African-Americans returning to 
>the
> > music their forefathers created. So three cheers for Nicholas Peyton and 
>all
> > others like him, even two and a half cheers for Wynton Marsalis. In 
>fact, we
> > are so keen on this, we will make all sorts of allowances:
>
>Hey Mike:
>
>Give all those British and European promoters the name Barbone Street. We 
>have a
>mixed race band. The trumpet lead is Black, and the youngest man in the 
>band at 55.
>We can gig over there for about 3 weeks max because of other commitments 
>here at
>home. In another month we will not be able to do it at all because we will 
>be fully
>booked here by then.
>
>Special deal price, 6 pieces, is $10,000 US $ per week plus hotel, 2 meals 
>per day,
>European travel and round trip airfare from Philadelphia PA USA. You can 
>view band
>personnel on our web site. Prefer last 3 weeks of August, when we have no
>pre-existing Jazz Festival commitments, or higher dollar gigs yet.
>
>We can always add more Blacks, but then it wouldn't be the same band. ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>Steve Barbone
>http://home.earthlink.net/~barbonestreet/
>
>PS. Nicholas Payton has defected to "modern" jazz. And Wyntom, believe it 
>or not, is
>starting to play very precise, arranged ensemble and arranged solo OKOM. 
>Good grief,
>he is stealing from ODJB, only this time doing it a lot better. ;-)
>
>
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