[Dixielandjazz] Straight-ahead? trad?

[Patrick Cooke]

>(since I consider straight-ahead
>more trad than modern).

Nancy....
    This is why I hate to use labels....no two people have the exact same
definition of what they mean.
    I believe straight ahead is more mainstream than trad.  I doubt you will
ever see a banjo in a straight ahead group, not likely a tuba either;
although there are no restrictions or even recommendations for
instrumentation or specific tune titles.
     Pat Cooke


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Giffin" <nancyink at ulink.net>
To: "Edgerton, Paul A" <paul.edgerton at eds.com>; "'DJML'"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] You think *we* have problems?


> Paul Edgerton wrote:
> <   "...So mainstream festivals are the answer, huh?
> This article seems to suggest otherwise:
>
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001994424_jazz02.h
> tml>
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> Wasn't this thread about the success of much more modern festivals than
> Centrum?
>
> I read the article and then visited the festival website, which claims
> Centrum Jazz Port Townsend is a "mecca for lovers of straight-ahead jazz."
>
> Mainstream? That's a term that means many things to many people. To some,
> it's straight-ahead jazz, to others, it's more modern jazz.
>
> What or who is really to blame? We have to consider the economic struggles
> that Seattle (and much of the Northwest) have encountered in recent years.
> Perhaps that's why the (somewhat) nearby TerrifVic Festival in Victoria,
> B.C. has disappeared.
>
> I read this article differently. To me, it says that the more traditional
> festivals aren't bringing in the numbers (since I consider straight-ahead
> more trad than modern).
>
> I notice that in Toronto, whose festival presents jazz in all its many
> diverse forms -- from trad to rad -- had RECORD attendance this year,
> despite the fact that local tourism has not yet fully recovered from the
> SARS scare of 2003.
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