[Dixielandjazz] Playing the old to be able to play the new........

[Dan Augustine]

     Didn't Turk Murphy used to say that at concerts he would play 
"one for them" (the audience; a song they already knew) and then "one 
for us" (the band; a new song or one the audience didn't know), 
alternating (more or less) the two?  Wouldn't necessarily work all 
the time, i would guess, but would depend on the crowd, venue, etc. 
But in general, not a bad idea, like alternating slow and fast, vocal 
and instrumental.

     Dan
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>From: Vaxtrpts at aol.com
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:48:47 EDT
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Playing the old to be able to play the new........
>
>Barbone:
>>  But not selling Potato Head Blues, or all that early stuff because  the
>  > mass audience, and kids, are totally ignorant of  it.
>___________________________________________________________
>Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon
>But what if, in and amongst, you play "swinging"  versions of a few of his
>old stuff, to introduce them to it?  Wouldn't  you, over time, be widening
>their field of appreciation, and thereby span the  musical decades WITH young
>people enjoying both the old and  new?,
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Actually, I think in some ways you are both right.  I can give an even  "more
>outside the box" example from my old boss, Stan Kenton.  He  HATED nostalgia,
>but he did play Eager Beaver, Peanut Vendor, Intermission Riff  and others
>because he knew that if he played the ones people recognized, that  they would
>be more accepting of the really farther out new stuff, and he was 
>right.  This
>worked for both younger and older audiences. The really funny  thing was to
>watch people try to dance to Hank Levy's music (7/4; 9/8: 11/4;  13/8 -
>etc......)  Sometimes we actually thought that people were going to 
>hurt themselves!
>Mike Vax

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