[Dixielandjazz] Missing Out on Current Bands

[rahberry at comcast.net]

Steve,
I've heard Jon-Erik Kellso and Duke Heitger, as well as the Independence Hall JB, at numerous festivals out here on the West Coast.  Their music is not unknown to a lot of us.
We also get a chance to hear the Brits and the Aussies from time to time.
Rae Ann


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> 
> > "Brian Harvey" (polite snip) 
> 
> > Mr. Barbone wrote..........the current OKOM audience misses out by not 
> > keeping up with OKOM as played by 
> > contemporary musicians of this caliber and that is a shame. 
> > 
> > You may be right Steve but that makes you think so? 
> 
> Well, I know that few Americans (and I'd bet the farm that very few Brits) 
> have that Independence Hall JB record, and that very few have heard Jon Erik 
> Kellso, or Duke Heitger, or a whole host of other bands and top notch 
> American OKOMers. 
> 
> By the same token, I'd bet the farm that very few Americans have any idea 
> about what the 5 star Brit Bands are doing, or 5 star European Bands are 
> doing. 
> 
> And that something less than 25% of the "fans" on the DJML have bought a 
> reasonable number of CDs that feature these 5 star American and European 
> Bands. 
> 
> > For my part I have 
> > found that in the UK the top level of OKOM musicians can be found in 
> > concert halls and not jazz clubs who in the main don't know what a fair fee 
> > is. To find this five star level of jazz you just have to look for it. It's 
> > there - well over here it is. 
> 
> Yes, the music is there but very few "really" seek it out. and I think fewer 
> still buy the CDs of the current bands. In this country, 100,000 people may 
> attend the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, but very few bands sell as much as 500 
> CDs there and many sell less than 100. Not a good ratio and that's why CDs 
> end up in the bands' garages gathering dust. 
> 
> Sheik posted this "Oliver music album as his favorite: Peruna Jazzmen "Plays 
> the music of King Oliver", GHB BCD-436. How about a poll to see how many on 
> the DJML own this album, and/or "Louis-The Oliver Years" - Independence Hall 
> JB -Stomp Off Records. Sounds like Sheik and I own both, how many others on 
> the list own even one out of the two? Yet everybody loves King Oliver's 
> music. Go figure. 
> 
> Or how many of us have CDs of Jon Erik Kellso, or Nicholas Peyton? It is 
> already a lost cause with Peyton because he left the genre a year or two ago 
> in order to make more money in modern jazz where more fans buy CDs. His 
> latest album as a sideman with Terry Gibbs reprises the bebop of 52nd 
> Street. And, it is SELLING like hot cakes according to the local jazz radio 
> station here in Philadelphia. 
> 
> There you have my soul bared about why I preach listening to musicians who 
> are still alive, playing this music. To keep them from leaving the genre, 
> like Peyton, for greener pastures. Not only that, but guys like Kellso and 
> Peyton are better than 95% of the dead OKOM trumpeters. (IMO, of course.:-) 
> VBG) 
> 
> And, I admit to being totally ignorant of the Brit (and European) guys who 
> are in the same category, except for two, John Petters; The Gota River 
> Jazzmen. But then, I am not only a fan of OKOM, I am a fan of music and so I 
> listen to a much more varied sampling of it. Even to some dead guys. 
> 
> Examples: Brahms (to get inside Richard Rodgers music), Bartok, Back and 
> Milhaud (to get inside Brubeck's music) Baby Dodds circa 1940s to get inside 
> the music of the modern jazz drummers (Blakey, Morello, Elvin Jones) etc., 
> etc., etc . So much music, so little time. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Steve Barbone 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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