[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Societies

[Bob Romans]

Hi Dan...you have a BUNCH of great musicians in your area that play
OKOM...all you need to do now is invite Willie Nelson in for a jam session!
Warm regards,
Bob Romans
Cell Block 7 Jazz Band
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: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Societies


> DJMLites--
>      Well, that's sad if the AFJS is no more, just when we need it.
>      However, how hard could it be for various of the successful
> jazz-societies to share information among themselves (and with, or
> maybe through) us?
>      Here in Austin, apparently the horse-latitudes of pre-1950 jazz,
> we'd like to find out from other jazz-societies around the country
> how to increase the attendance at our concerts, and also how to get
> new members.
>      In a town like Austin (over a million in the whole area),
> modestly billing itself as "the live-music capital of the world" (per
> capita?  who knows what ichor coats the tongues of publicists?), it
> might seem that audiences are massive and willing, if we had but the
> wit to a) find them and b) figure out how to shove their collective
> noses up against sweet-smelling dixieland.
>      So how about it?  Seems like other mailing-lists have started
> from similarly humble sharings (the Nero Wolfe list that i've been on
> since 1995 started with about ten folks exchanging email-messages).
>      How do we get more attendees, members, concert-goers?  Publicize,
> naturally, but how, where, to whom, how often, etc.  There are a
> number of (more or less moribund) jazz-organizations in Austin,
> haughtily ignoring each other, plus jazz-groups in highschools and
> colleges.  Since we have no full-time dixieland-bands, we can't send
> bands to the schools to advertise us, so we're probably dependent on
> the usual organs of (dis)information, the newspapers, magazines,
> email, and the like.
>      We ain't exactly sinking, but we ain't nowhere near swimming, either.
>
>      Dan
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> >From: rahberry at comcast.net
> >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Society Marketing Consultant
> >Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:41:43 +0000
> >
> >Dan,
> >For what it's worth, while at Orange County I heard that the
> >American Federation of Jazz Societies met and voted itself out of
> >existence.  Anybody know more about this?
> >Rae Ann
>
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> >>  Folks--
> >>       What do you think about a jazz-society hiring a
> >>  marketing-consultant to help promote its concerts?  Is this a good
> >>  idea?  How much should it cost?
> >>       Would the American Federation of Jazz Societies have information
> >>  or opinions about this?  If not, who would?
> >>       Surely each jazz-society is not an island entire unto itself,
> >>  reinventing the wheel each time in every town?  But what do you do if
> >>  nobody in the management of the society has experience or expertise
> >>  in this?
> >>
> >  >      Dan
>
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