[Dixielandjazz] Well, it ain't The Dutch Swing College Band!!!!!

[David Richoux]

Cees,

I agree with you on the level of musical-ness from the ICP Orchestra.  
but the Willem Breuker Kollektief is a whole different story! I have  
heard many of their recordings and seen them live as well. True, some  
charts are read (or memorized ) but they really do swing, they can  
play "real OKOM jazz," they have fun and they have some amazing  
chops! I was just listening to their 1987 "Metropolis" CD and played  
the title track on my show today - beautiful music that is well  
played, with  improv solos (as far as I can tell, anyway...)

Dave Richoux

On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Cees van den Heuvel wrote:

> I've never liked it. It's always the same trick:
> Go from chaos to an imitation of a jazz style and back.
> The audience falls for it and thinks "they can play
> orninary jazz also, so the chaos must have an artistic
> meaning" But when you listnen closer, you'll hear that
> their imitation of e.g. dixieland is less than mediocre.
> Big bands do the same: a written arrangement which
> incorporates a dixie or New Oleans part.
>
>
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