[Dixielandjazz] WOODY ALLEN CONCERT

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In a message dated 12/16/2006 9:06:10 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk writes:

Hi  Judie,

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience but if you had seen the  film "West 
End Blues" you would have been warned about just how bad Woodie  Allen is. I 
never laughed at him until I heard him  play.

Louis





I did watch "Wild Man Blues" but mostly to see Dan  Barrett, the trombone 
player and longtime friend. I remember thinking that Woody  wasn't all that 
special but as they never really finished many songs, it never  hit me that he was 
that bad. Lol Dan never said much about his playing but more  about how they 
were treated rather badly compared to Woody on this tour but  again this was 
years ago, so I guess when you take a bad player and add the age  on them, they 
can really become very bad. Lol
 
I did forget to say that the rest of the band was good  from what I could 
hear over the screeching and squawks of Woody. I did  notice that the banjo 
player was feeding the cords to the piano player often as  if he didn't know most 
of the tunes but I guess if you are as bad as Woody, you  surround yourself 
with good players and hope it doesn't show. Lol 
 
What really made me feel sad was that the audience,  some of them I am sure 
not listening to OKOM often, would think this was good  because of his name. In 
the beginning they would clap loudly as Woody finished a  solo. I can't say 
what their response was towards the end of the concert as I  couldn't take it. 
We were laughing all the way home but the sound was still in  my ears and I 
just couldn't get rid of it. Terrible.
 
Quite a few years ago we attended the touring  "Preservation" band concert 
and we enjoyed that. They weren't the originals of  course but at least they had 
some talent. Woody seemed to know all the note, his  rhythm was OK but he 
just couldn't find them in between the squeaks and squawks  and as I said, he 
never met a pretty note.
 
 
 
 
 
Jazz  Hugs

Judie  

Jazz  Hugs

Judie