[Dixielandjazz] The OKOM "product"

[Cees van den Heuvel]

Without an audience there is very little point in performing.
Playing jazz and performing jazz are two different things.
They can go together in the perfect circumstances and with
the perfect audience. Moments to cherish!
But in the real world performing is the thing. The real jazz
part is only picked up by a few in the audience. I play for
them, and perform for the rest.
Being a musicians musician is too romantic, unless
you are a millionaire and have your own record company
and critics on your pay roll.

Cees van den Heuvel
http://www.revivaljassband.nl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Nichols" <marnichols at yahoo.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The OKOM "product"


> Steve B. wrote: I find that when I play for myself and execute difficult 
> passages and
> off
> beat chord changes, standing stock still like a classical player nobody
> but
> other musicians "get" it. So, to make love to the audience, I make
> clarinet
> player faces, squeeze out some body language, play high notes and do
> all
> that other vaudeville stuff. And the audience relates, whether they are
> "jazz sophisticated" or "jazz challenged".
>
>  I think it is interesting that, to my knowledge, Jack Teagarden 
> apparently
>  never did any of the "vaudeville stuff" and was a great and successful 
> performer, as were so many others like him. One might object that Jack
>  would take his trombone apart once and a while and play without a bell,
>  without a slide, etc. however I don't consider that as "tricks" as much 
> as
>  demonstrations of his virtuosity as an artist. Others may disagree I'm 
> sure.
>
>  To each his own! I watched Georg Brunis play "flat on his back, only 
> using his feet and mouth" to play great trombone in Chicago at the "1111 
> Club" on Bryn Mawr Ave. in the '50s. I just don't think Teagarden would do 
> that, maybe I'm wrong. I saw Jack in the 60's in a club in Boston where
>  the supporting acts were a MC that sang, and a girl stripper. I recall 
> mentioning to the guy next to me at the bar "Teagarden shouldn't have to 
> play in a joint like this." I was stationed at Ft. Deven's at the time and 
> somehow learned that Jack was appearing in Boston. I spoke to him at a 
> table for a few minutes. I recall he was quite a "reserved " person to 
> speak to [mostly listened.] Anyway!
>
>
>
>
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