[Dixielandjazz] IT'S THE PRESENTATION . . . . . .was where is the music going.

[Steve barbone]

Where is the music going? HERE. . . .

Have You Played YOUR Dance Music Today? Your can play high spirited OKOM for
this audience. They'll adore it if you do it right. But please, no warmed
over pop music from the 1920s-1930s, and use Mardi Gras beads instead of
quartz crystals.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


February 21, MUSIC REVIEW | SOUND TRIBE SECTOR NINE NY TIMES  (condensed)

Providing Energy for Dancing (and Metaphysical Energy From Quartz Crystals)
By JON PARELES 

....Baggy, shaggy jam-band fans bob and weave to live bands. ... at the
Irving Plaza on Friday night, the instrumental band Sound Tribe Sector Nine
opened its two-night stand there.

In latter-day hippie style, the band performed alongside an onstage display
of crystals, quartz spheres and elaborate foliage, while perched on top of
the club's large floor speakers were two easels, where Oliver Vernon and
another painter worked on canvases as the band played.

But the music came less from the hippie roots metamorphoses of the Grateful
Dead, the jam-band fountainhead, than from later, more fixed idioms: funk,
jazz-rock fusion, down tempo acid jazz, minor-key trip-hop and house music.
The one borrowed song came from hip-hop: Deee-Lite's buoyant 1990 "What Is
Love?," minus the words.

The music set out to do a job - to get heads shaking and bodies moving - in
its two sets on Friday. Onstage the music was genial and straightforward.

Some jam bands start in one musical zone and head for another in the course
of a song, or let members egg one another on with elaborate solos. But Sound
Tribe Sector Nine prefers steady vamps and self-effacing ensemble work that
unfolds riff after riff. It's closer in structure to disc-jockey dance music
than to rock songs. It was up to the rhythm section to stoke the music, and
periodically the drummer, Zach Velmer, whipped up cymbal crescendos or
double-time break beats that made the crowd cheer.