[Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Pat and all:

Again it is a matter of personal  interpretation  of what song is or is 
not considered to be Traditional Jazz.

We do not all think the same and many as stated in this thread earlier  
consider songs like "Moon River " to be Classical music,  the genre is 
indeed in the mid and ears of the listener, whether we choose to 
consider it as what we call Traditional Jazz or not.

I used to have people make statements about Legendary Blues Man  John 
Lee Hooker's daughter's music calling her Jazz instead of Blues, and 
John simply said "If she say it be Blues then it is Blues She wrote the 
song, and Blues comes in many flavors and even inspired lots of Jazz."


If Louis Armstong the undisputed king of Jazz played it then it's close 
enough to Jazz for me and there are many many folks around the world 
who think it is as well.   Dixieland Jazz no but Jazz nonetheless a 
Jazz Ballad probably defines it better however.   I put it in the same 
category as Star Dust. and other songs of that ilk.

Cheers,

Tom


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Sent: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

   I playing just that one song to 
  fifty or sixty thousand younger audience members a concert is not 
doing 
 anything to spread Traditional Jazz then Louis Armstrong is a myth>> 
 
  Wow, playing WWW, I dont care by who, will not spread Traditional Jazz 
one iota. Its a `sort of alright` little tune but it has as much 
relationship to Jazz, of any sort, as my little finger has to 
Cleopatra`s Needle. 
 
 Cheers 
 
 Pat  
  
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