[Dixielandjazz] Evergreen Jazz Festival

[Ed Danielson]

Don, I don't disagree with your assessment of the changes that have occurred 
in Evergreen, but it's still charming compared to, for example, most towns 
within 50 miles of Denver, and almost any town on the I-70 corridor.  Look 
at Castle Rock or Longmont if you want to see traffic and sprawl.  Legalized 
gambling and its attendant casino construction have robbed Black Hawk and 
Central City of any charm they had.  Breckenridge has more traffic problems 
than they can handle.  And Aspen?  Poor Schnickelfritz must be turning in 
his grave.  And now some contruction interests have planned a major 
development between Minturn and Leadville, of all places!

There's a great jazz festival (but not trad) in genuinely charming 
Westcliffe, CO: Jazz in the Sangres (for the Sangre de Cristo mountain 
range).  It must be the most remote festival in the world -- Westcliffe is 
halfway between Wetmore and Texas Creek, CO.

I note that the Queen City Jazz Band is going to play Colorado's Telluride 
Jazz Festival this year; I think that's the first time they've booked a trad 
band there.  (Telluride is another place that's rapidly becoming 
overdeveloped.)


Ed Danielson

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
-- James Thurber




>From: dingle at baldwin-net.com
>Reply-To: dingle at baldwin-net.com
>To: Ed Danielson <mcvouty78 at hotmail.com>
>CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Evergreen Jazz Festival
>Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:31:59 -0400
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>Ed Danielson wrote:
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>>The Evergreen Jazz Festival is coming up July 22 - 24, with a fine lineup:
>>
>>James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band
>>Queen City Jazz Band with Wende Harston – Denver
>>Terry Waldo Ragtime Quartet - New York
>>CanUS - Victoria, BC
>>Centerpiece Jazz with Joni Janak – Denver
>>Gremoli - Long Beach, CA
>>The L.A. Jazz Combo - with Evergreen teenage vocalist Liz Ager
>>Celebration Jazz Band - Ft. Collins, CO with Bob Cooke and Bob Jackson
>>Carl Sonny Leyland Trio - Orange, CA
>>Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra - Denver
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>>This is a fun little festival in a charming Colorado mountain town not far 
>>from Denver. Full information at this website:
>>http://www.evergreenjazz.org
>>
>>I look forward to seeing any DJML-ers in attendance.
>>
>>Ed Danielson
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>My wife Jean and I owned a small cabin above Evergreen for several decades, 
>though we seldom got back often enough. We lived in town for a few years 
>andI worked wiht several bands in Denver before heading off to Aspen to 
>work with Freddie Fisher and later with Joe Marsala before movingont o CA.
>Last tme we were back in Evergreen the town was no longer "charming" as we 
>knew it. The traffic jams were terrible, and the lovely hills a mess of 
>ill-thought building. The little town of Evergreen may ve a great place to 
>hold a jazz concert but I doubt we would ever live there again. Progress, I 
>guess, but when people discover some "charming" little place they flock to 
>move there -- and immediately change it from what is was that carmed them.
>Ah well -- change is the only constant in life. Enjoy the music before it 
>changes beyond recognition beyond all recall.
>Curmudgeonly yours,
>Don Ingle - Championing the move to remove In God We Trust from our money 
>and replace it with Bah, Humbug!!
>Would I run for the Surpremem Court? No - I'd run from it these days after 
>the recent emminent domain ruling. (Where did they get these people?)
>There -- I feel much better now. I'd kick the dog to be sure but the dog 
>died last year, another sign of change!
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