[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Styles

[Cees van den Heuvel]

No comment, we're on the same track!

Cees van den Heuvel
http://www.revivaljassband.nl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "Cees van den Heuvel" <heu at bart.nl>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Styles


> on 9/29/06 6:00 PM, Cees van den Heuvel at heu at bart.nl wrote:
>
>> I.m.o.( I'm learning..:)) it's not a question of styles. It's a question
>> of attitude. Do you want to recreate the past or do
>> you want to climb on the shoulders of the giants,
>> and create new things to honour them.
>>
>> Cees van den Heuvel
>> http://www.revivaljassband.nl
>
> Careful now Cees, you'll get us started on creation of new things to honor
> the giants which will lead from Louis to Bix to Dizzy to Fats to Brownie 
> to
> Miles to ? Or from Pee Wee Russell to Gerry Mulligan to Buddy DeFranco to
> Tony Scott to Eddie Daniels to ? :-) VBG.
>
> Your point is well taken, at least by me. As a young jazz musician friend
> playing "World Music" said to me. "What you do is fine because you are not
> trying to make a statement. But what I am trying to do is make a 
> statement."
>
> He felt that in order for jazz to progress as a musical form, it must
> change. Same for classical, or any other musical form as far as he was
> concerned. He may not be wrong.
>
> Hasn't OKOM changed stylistically in a loose, 50 year, chronological
> sequence. From N.O. Uptown, to White N.O. to New Orleans Downtown, to Hot
> Dance, to Chicago, to San Francisco Revival (juiced up Downtown N.O.), to
> New York Nicksieland, to British Trad. Where will it go next? Or did it 
> stop
> progressing? And if so, why? Is there no Condon or Lu or Chris among us?
>
> Who will create the new Dixieland to honor the past giants?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
>
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