[Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due? -- what to do?

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The trouble with trying to reach the grandkids with OKOM is their parents -
your kids -My grandson always wanted to listen to grandpa's happy music when
he was in the car with us but alas the stuff my daughter and her husband
listen to is one step above rap.  That is it has to have at least one chord
and something resembling a melody line.

Where did I go wrong?  Well it's with his mom, dad, and his peers and about
a zillion hours watching TV and listening to radio, Video games and CD's.
He no longer wants to hear grandpa's happy music (Boring) and since he's
almost a teen now I think the battles lost but you never know.  The seed was
planted and even though there isn't much water being put on it it might not
be dead.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <l.swain at comcast.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due? -- what to do?


> I share much of my listmates' lament over what is currently "hot"
> (is this an archaic term?). My wife and I continually share the
> question "and they call this MUSIC?".
>
> When I was in high school (1948-1953), a few of our Boston-area AM
> radio stations (that we listened to most afternoons) were fully
> involved in the Dixie revival of the time, and my dad, a Benny
> Goodman fan, was introducing me to BG's chamber-music stuff (trio,
> quartet, quintet, sextet, septet -- was there ever an octet?), and
> I was playing my heart out after my year of studying piano (from
> age 10 to 11) -- how to play with chords and a 1-note melody
> (classic fake-book stuff)-- thanks to my teacher, a great guy who
> played in movie houses to accompany silent films.
>
> So I came to music (still now a fan of classical, esp. chamber
> music, which is a bit like OKOM, in a number of ways) as an eager
> (from age 10 to 11) receptor of "what's next?".
>
> Steve Barbone has offered us much good advice about how to hook
> today's kids -- at the high-schol level -- on OKOM, if you are a
> band.
>
> I have a new granddaughter as of a couple of days ago, thanks to my
> 41-yr-old son's finally falling in love, and would love to help
> her, through her infancy and beyond, hear and learn to love, OKOM.
> I'll play for her whenever I can, on my keybord or my piano,
> (thanks to local connections, after 45 years of not playing gigs, I
> have become the piano-player of last resort for a few Boston-area
> OKOM groups), on records, off the Web, or whatever.
>
> Any suggestions for how I can enhance this connection through her
> childhood years?  Looking for suggestions that might be useful for
> other listmates with grandkids that they would like to inculcate
> with OKOM?
>
> Larry Swain
>
>
> Laurence Swain
> l.swain at comcast.net
> 617 (571) 7885
>
>
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