[Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?

[Steve barbone]

on 8/22/05 3:04 PM, Charlie Hooks at charliehooks2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.

Ha Ha. I hear you man, but then, maybe the harpist WILL lap dance you
judging by the latest Kiss & Tell book (also reviewed by the Times a few
weeks ago) about those licentious female classical musicians.

Book by a female reed player yet. Gives us reedists a bad name :-) VBG.

Cheers,
Steve