[Dixielandjazz] Letter on Sacramento Jubilee

[Bob Romans]

DON'T KNOCK IT UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN THERE!!!
What an insipid reply  by someone whose opinions I've always respected!
All the bus rides are very short!
Check your schedule/program again...if you ever got one! There's a real
mix/eclectic of very good bands! Do you think the Sacramento Jubilee has
it's head up a dark place or something!
Pay a couple of bucks and see for yourself!
Yes! I'm pissed off!
Bob Romans/Cell Block 7
1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
Lodi, Ca. 95242
209-339-4676
www.cellblockseven2002.net
Cell 747-1148
Because I play trumpet, I envy no man!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Cooke" <patcooke at cox.net>
To: "Tim Eldred" <julepjerk at surewest.net>; "DJML"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Letter on Sacramento Jubilee


> Re: Sacramento Bee...
>
>    The writer of the letter may have a few good points, but I'll bet he's
no
> older than 30 something.  He/She is not even aware that "traditional jazz"
> is PC for dixieland.
>     Well, the reasons I never have attended Sacto are:
>     1) It's too spread out. I envision spending too much time riding a
bus,
> or waiting for one.
>      2) As the writer says, mainstream jazz is all but totally ignored.  I
> check the schedule every year, and all I see is trad band after trad band;
> plus now they've added zydeco, which I really don't care for.  I would
like
> about a 50/50 mix of contemporary trad and straight ahead (mainstream)
jazz.
> As simple as trad is to play, there is a plethora of trad bands, but not
> that many are of festival calibre.
>       As for other styles the writer mentions, I could do without them.
> "Pop jazz" is an oxymoron.
>        Pat (either it is, or it ain't) Cooke
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Eldred" <julepjerk at surewest.net>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:57 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Letter on Sacramento Jubilee
>
>
> For whatever it's worth, here is a letter from the Tuesday Sacramento Bee
> commenting on the article regarding the Sacramento Jubilee.  For the
record,
> there were a number a significant number of excellent blues, zydeco, etc.,
> bands and I did not see one straw hat in a band....
>
> Re "Jazz Jubilee finances get rolling," July 27: If the drop in admissions
> is troubling to the Sacramento Jazz Society, they need look no further
than
> their band lineup. What they call "traditional jazz" most everyone else
> calls "Dixieland." Listening to group after group of guys with straw hats
> and banjos playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" grows tiresome.
> Adding a Zydeco act, a swing band and a blues outfit won't do the trick.
To
> attract more people, offer more variety. How about modern jazz, bebop,
> Latin, free, classic or pop jazz? How many name jazz acts could be brought
> in if instead of 120 Dixieland bands, they went with 60? They could turn
> this into a quality jazz event people would flock to.
>
> The society insists on sticking with unknown bands from a genre that just
> isn't popular anymore. They can continue to cut costs and reduce the
number
> of acts each year until there is nothing left, but that's not the goal, is
> it?
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