[Dixielandjazz] Boring Jazz

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Young people don't usually go out of their way to hear OKOM but when they do 
they seem to enjoy it a lot.  The trick is to get them to hear it.  This is 
new music to them and like everyone else, new things sometimes takes a while 
to get used to.  Heck, a lot of it is new to me which is why I enjoy it so 
much.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Boring Jazz


>> Steve Barbone wrote:
>>
>>  "But I would point out that it is only us
>> old
>> folks who want to remember the good old days. It is simply not relevant
>> to
>> the younger audience, which is why we have none."
> (snip)
>
> Bob Ringwald says:
>
> Steve, You keep talking about your young audiences.  Now you say "we have
> none?"  Which is it?
>
>
> Martin Nichols answered:
>
>>  I can't quite understand that Steve. When I started listening as a young
>> kid
>>  around the late forties and early 50's, it was the "old days" that I was
>> enamored with, otherwise why would I have been listening to decades old
>> jazz?
>>
>>  Also, though I was not one of them, the college kids back then were also
>> crazy about jazz from the "old days."
>>
>>  Another thing- my exposure to jazz originally was only from records not
>> live venues; so that tells me the attraction was mainly aural and not
>> visual. That is not
>>  to say I didn't enjoy live performances even more, later when I got a
>> chance.
> (snip)
>
>
> As much as it pains me to have to agree with Steve, martin, remember, 
> times
> were different back then.  The young kids of the 1940s & '50s were not
> exposed to MTV, videos, 10 second commercials and 6 second sound bites.
>
> They were used to using their ears and imagination, listening to a radio 
> or
> phonograph.
>
> --Bob Ringwald
>
>
>
>
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