[Dixielandjazz] Relevant Dixieland

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Well, wow, Steve. That is more than nice and I will send my snail mail  
off-list.  When I was listening to the samples, I was thinking I wanted to  get my 
34 year old daughter who loves to dance to give a listen, and you  certainly 
took care of that!  At first when I was listening I was going to  make comments 
about specifics that I liked--but that was going to be a long  list.  In sum, 
what's obvious is a the several hundred cumulative years of  making music 
with the giants all gathered and sitting in your group.  I  also thought you were 
right, it's where Eddie Condon would have liked to go so  maybe he's the 
Barbone Street angel taking you all there.
Ginny
 
In a message dated 7/10/2006 10:20:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

barbonestreet reply
Hi Ginny:

Thanks for listening. The  Skylark vocalist is Connie Rainis, a 45 year old
"modern" jazz singer in  Philadelphia. She and I work straight ahead stuff
together in trio form.  She had never worked with this band before and we did
not get to rehearse  this performance at West Chester U because of a blizzard
that shut the  University down for 2 days. We were notified at noon that the
University  was open again and we would perform that night. ( 5 day jazz
festival) So I  scrambled to get everybody there and drove 3 of us with my 4
wheel drive  Jeep through the drifts. Another SUV brought the others.

Did the whole  program on the fly. Took a quick look at her charts, decided
to do her  songs without charts and just did it 100% improv. That's "jazz".
:-)  VBG.

On Skylark, we were going to do more chorus's but she made a hand  gesture on
the last note that we mistook for her wanting to end it, so the  guitarist
did. Don't know if you can hear her "oh" as it ends but she was  as surprised
as we were.

We booked Connie for the gig because the  jazz festival theme was "Women In
Jazz" and we felt a woman vocalist would  be apropos.

The University students recorded the concert on a single  channel so we were
unable to balance the sound but you get the idea. Nice  venue. New Concert
hall seating 1500 or so. About 800 showed up in spite of  the snow which had
not been totally cleared around the area  yet.

Cheers,
Steve