[Dixielandjazz] Jazz is not an American Art Form?????

[Steve Barbone]

dingle at baldwin-net.com at dingle at baldwin-net.com wrote:
 
> I am surprised that no one has so far included the Jim Cullum band.
> Jim's band is a working band, playing daily, touring frequentky,
> working  with solid charts as a framework but allowing for a free flow
> of solos within that framework.  This band has also garnered a large
> audience via public radio on a weekly basis, and thanks to those shows
> we get to hear a great band, with great guests stars -- BLACK and White
> as well -- and with retrospectives on periods and bands of the past.
> In so doing it provides a master's class in jazz history. Some of the
> bands that have been mentioned  are more often heard on a  studio
> produced CD than in person, but you do not have to go far -- to place or
> to radio knob - to hear what is arguably the best working OKOM band
> anywhere. So I am more than happy to add this name to the list that has
> been floating around this week and I say -- it's about damn time!

Right on Don. If not the top working OKOM band in the world, certainly among
the top 5.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone