[Dixielandjazz] It's Trad, Dad

[Marek Boym]

Hello Charlie,
In Europe they still make it!
I attendeed the Enkhuizen Jazz Festival two years ago. That small (1994 pop. 
16,037) Dutch town has several jazz bands, the best known of which is the 
Herringtown Jazz Band.  But, more important, one band - The Hot Revival Jazz 
Band - is young!  I had heard them before in Bude, England, but here they 
were on their home ground.  On the Pub Crawl night I went to the bar where 
they usually play.  Wow!  At 63, I felt ancient!  And the place was so 
packed I could not turn to face the band!  The young public not only enjoyed 
the music, but actually knew most songs played, and often chanted with the 
band.

At another venue - paid - I had a chat with a teenager.  When he heard I was 
from Israel, he enquired about jazz in Israel, and then said: "Probably same 
as in Enkhuizen, I guess."  He had never been abroad, or even away from 
Enkhuzen, and was very surprised to hear that jazz was not as popular in 
other places as in his home town!
So, perhaps jazz has emigrated and is alive and well in Europe (and other 
places, Japan for example)/
Cheers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Suhor" <csuhor at zebra.net>
To: "Marek Boym" <nmboym at 012.net.il>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] It's Trad, Dad


>
> Yes, Marek, that's part of the interesting contrast. In the U.S.  revival 
> of the 40s through early 50s, Dixieland/early jazz, etc., was  never 
> really the rage. It had strong and widespread popular subculture  support 
> while the dying strains of the swing era and plenty of novelty  tunes 
> dominated the Hit Parade. By 1955 or so it was a lot of shallow  rock as 
> noted below, with early good R&B making some inroads, and Elvis  killing 
> off both swing and Dixieland as popular favorites for all time  (with the 
> exception of occasional one-time hits like Midnight in Moscow  or Stranger 
> on the Shore). By the time the Beatles invaded around '63,  the 
> combination that was represented in the movie would have been  unthinkable 
> in US popular culture, as bizarre as a scholars' convention  on Aquinas 
> and Sartre..
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Dec 30, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Marek Boym wrote:
>
>> Trad was THE popular music in the UK until the Beattles came around.
>> Cheers
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Suhor" <csuhor at zebra.net>
>> To: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>> Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; "Price, Monte" 
>> <monte.price at quaternity.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] It's Trad, Dad
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Strange, indeed. It was odd for me as an American to try to understand
>>> that, unlike here, there was obviously an audience in 1962 in England
>>> that simultaneously dug trad/Dixieland and the lite rock that made up
>>> most of the rest of the movie. Young folks here who were digging
>>> Frankie Avalon, Gary U.S. Bonds, Chubby Checker, and early bubble gum
>>> rock, doo-wop, etc., weren't usually interested in Dixieland at all. I
>>> was grateful to see this unique little period piece, though, and there
>>> was plenty of OKOM. Any hints as to whether the chick with the male
>>> voice was lip-syncing?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> On Dec 29, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Dan Augustine wrote:
>>>>  i immediately thrust off my
>>>> drunken stupor (well, some of it) to watch this very entertaining
>>>> (but a little strange) film. \
>>>
>>>
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