[Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?

[Charlie Hooks]

On Sunday, August 21, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Steve barbone wrote:

> Some, like Sacramento, or the Baltimore Symphony are
> trying different approaches to reverse that trend.

Yes, there was a lengthy feature in the Sunday NYT (which was gratis 
on my porch this Monday morn: I certainly would not buy that 
left-legged fish wrapper ;-) about symphonies like the St. Louis 
giving dinner and a show along with the symphony and gushing that 
"you don't have to dress up in fancy pants" to come there.

I'm of two minds about all this, somewhat as I regard men in shorts 
and cargo pants at Mass on Sunday: "God's just damn lucky I dropped 
in for Him on the way to the golf course!" kind of attitude.  Somehow 
I have a tough time envisioning guys in jeans swilling their beer and 
really getting into that there sim-phoney stuff. But hell, if they 
can be conned out of their money, then what do we care?  After the 
symphony bash, we can try 'em out on string quartets!   Whatever 
works, right?  As you point out, "whatever helps jazz, will also help 
our kind of jazz. It seems as if you still fail to grasp that."  
Yeah, I guess.  Maybe the harpist will lap dance you, too?  Would 
beat some of the programs I've heard at the CSO.

Charlie, the grumpy traditionalist

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