[Dixielandjazz] Missing Out on Current Bands

[David W. Littlefield]

At 04:30 PM 9/14/2004 -0400, Steve barbone wrote:
>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. 
>
....
>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.

One can start keeping a breast of American and European OKOM CDs by
1. getting on Jerry Brown's monthly catalog mailing list
2. checking the Worlds Records website every 10 days or less. WR now has an
eMail notice of selected new CDs that comes out several days after WR posts
it's new receipts list. 

>
>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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