Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Leading Anecdotes

[DWSI at aol.com]

Perhaps we're all making wrong assumptions about how our music, and, in fact, 
all music, will be categorized by future players and listeners. We all grew 
up believing that the best music of each generation somehow will be remembered 
and preserved and that each generation's music fits into some kind of 
cubbyhole for future reference. This assumption gave birth to the necessary 
expectation of constant replacement; each new generation must create its own sound or 
style, each to be eventually pigeon-holed by generation for history. But the 
electronic revolution we live in (and will continue to live with on-going from 
now on) is changing these assumptions and expectations quickly. All music is 
constantly available now. We don't get to hear all styles from all eras on the 
radio, of course, but that's because the producers invest in pleasing whatever 
audience they think is now buying the most. Sometimes they are very wrong. The 
message for OKOM is to keep putting it out there. Somebody will be listening 
and tapping their foot. It will always be my kind of music.
Dan (piano fingers) Spink