[Dixielandjazz] Australian jazz presented in Europe

[Richard Stevens]

Hi David,
Your interest in young Australian bands is certainly well founded . Some of
the others include Cat Empire (now quite famous here) and Shuffle Club.
Shuffle Club are coming to the Noosa Jazz Festival next weekend doing a
transit flight from Edinburgh. There has been a steady stream of jazz
musicians in Europe since the genre was kick started there again in the 50's
by the Bell Band's that toured there. You are quite right about their
acceptance in Europe where traditional jazz is regarded as another cultural
art form. Evidently in the United States the "cultural" aspects of the music
is not applied to earlier forms of jazz. One day you may get to hear some of
Michael Mcquaid's work. He is a sensational reeds player at 23 years and has
young groups ranging from a swinging quartet to a self arranged big band. I
have been lucky enough to play with him a few times and will be doing so at
the above festival. We didn't have a 2nd trumpet for one show so Michael
will play first trumpet in our Watters style 8 piece. I don't know why, but
Australia is still "the" melting pot for traditional jazz in the world!
If you would like I can steer you towards some other recordings. I suspect
however that most on this list will not be interested. I recently posted a
few tracks on my website and emailed the list to that effect asking for
opinions. I don't care if every one hated the stuff we do, but I only got 2
responses.  

regards,
Richard Stevens
www.thejazzfactory.net
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From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richoux
Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2005 4:02 AM
To: DJML Jazz
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz preservation in Europe?

One band of current interest to me is the Australian group "The 
Hoodangers" ( recommended on this list by Cees van den Heuvel and Bill 
Haesler.) I got 2 of their CDs and I was really knocked out by their 
updating of trad/OKOM standards. There is so much energy and skill, 
along with  great respect for the original songs (and more than a bit 
of subtle humor.)  They need to be invited to some US festivals very 
soon!

  They hang out in Europe a lot and seem to be influenced somewhat by 
the new wave of brass band/jazz/new-vaudevilletraditional folk/street 
bands that have been playing in the last decade. From what I have been 
hearing lately, I think this is one of the major  directions Trad will 
be going in the next 20-30 years, at least in Europe and even some 
American cultural centers like NYC and San Francisco.


More at http://www.aian.com.au/hoodangers/Bio.htm


Dave Richoux

On Aug 27, 2005, at 3:05 AM, Rob & Carla Henneveld - Jazz Connection 
wrote:

> snip
>
> I'm interested in the opinions of the European and USA (and other !!!) 
> list
> mates so we can learn from each other. Mean question: does everybody 
> feel
> the change in public to OKOM?
>
> I'm open to it and hope to hearing from you.
>


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