[Dixielandjazz] Doctor Jazz Delights Jerusalem Audience

Fri Dec 1 11:16:58 PST 2006

> I am happy to say I was able to keep the patter going in Hebrew, 
> announcing
> songs, making jokes, introducing the band, giving background about the
> music, and so on, and I sang my Hebrew translation of Cabaret. In Hebrew 
> or
> English, I tend to do my best work live, without thinking much beforehand
> about what I will say.

It's all about entertainment and communication - Personally I wish I were 
better at it - The one thing that TV or recorded music can't offer is 
interaction and I think that is what people like about a band that interacts 
with them - This is a sad commentary actually about bands that think they 
are too cool to talk to people.  It's out strength and now that I've said 
that I will try to do better at it myself.  An audience isn't an object or a 
lower life form.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ministry of Jazz" <jazzmin at actcom.net.il>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Doctor Jazz Delights Jerusalem Audience


> Shalom Jazz Fans,
>
> It's after midnight in Jerusalem, and I just returned from one of my 
> band's
> best performances in our 5 years or so of existence. We were invited by 
> the
> City to perform in a city-wide event at the museums that began tonight and
> continues for the next 3 weekends. Our venue is a new museum and
> archaeological park at the southern end of the Temple Mount. We played
> outdoors in a large plaza under a canopy, surrounded by the stone walls,
> ancient, medieval and modern, of Old Jerusalem. Talk about acoustics! WOW!
> We only needed a mike for the vocals, and we probably could have done
> without that. We were worried about freezing our buns off at an outdoor
> event at night at this time of the year, but it turned out we were too 
> hot.
> The weather was perfect.
>
> Our 4-piece configuration played for 2 hours to a happy audience of about
> 300 people, some of whom came from as far away as Tel Aviv and other 
> coastal
> towns over an hour from Jerusalem by car. We were delighted to see toes
> tapping, hands clapping, and lips moving to the words of the familiar
> songs -- and this was a mostly Hebrew-speaking Israeli crowd. We sold CDs
> and gave out business cards, and got a number of inquiries about playing 
> at
> private events.
>
> Even more exciting was the reaction of the management of the venue/site.
> They loved us, and are talking about building future events around us. 
> This
> site is relatively new, and they want to promote more activity there. They
> also told us about a new underground auditorium that is being constructed 
> in
> a place called Zedekiah's Cave, under the north western corner of the 
> Temple
> Mount, where the natural acoustics are said to be out of this world. This
> event might finally put us on the map in Jerusalem as a serious classic 
> jazz
> band.
>
> I am happy to say I was able to keep the patter going in Hebrew, 
> announcing
> songs, making jokes, introducing the band, giving background about the
> music, and so on, and I sang my Hebrew translation of Cabaret. In Hebrew 
> or
> English, I tend to do my best work live, without thinking much beforehand
> about what I will say. I have gotten many crazy ideas on the spot for
> humorous interludes between songs. Tonight as I introduced the band in the
> beginning, the idea occurred to me that playing trumpet so near to the
> Temple Mount could be dangerous, because the Messiah might hear the 
> trumpet
> and come ahead of schedule by mistake. I told them I didn't want to cause 
> a
> world-wide catastrophe, so I would play delicately. Well, I thought the 
> idea
> was funny. It got a decent rise out of the crowd. Now all I need is to 
> work
> up the courage to follow the example of our buddy Steve Barbone, and sing
> one of the love songs to one of our beautiful Israeli gals.
>
> We play again next Thursday. I hope the weather will hold up. I intend to
> get pictures and video of the next show, and will post anything that is
> worth viewing.
>
> Hey, we wouldn't mind seeing some of you good folks over here. The weather
> is still great, there is lots of fun stuff to do and fascinating things to
> see. And bring your axes and we'll put you to work!
>
> Blessings from Jerusalem,
>
> Elazar
> Dr. Jazz Dixieland Band
> Tekiya Trumpet Ensemble
> Jerusalem, Israel
> www.israel.net/ministry-of-jazz
> (02) 679-2537
> 050-723-3914
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon [mailto:mjl at ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:01 AM
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Another test.
>
>
> Sorry again,
>
> ----
> Etc,
>
> Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon, Vicar-general
> North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
> Archdiocese of California
> www.naorc.org
>
>
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>
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