[Dixielandjazz] A followup reply

[billsharp]

Here's what one fellow sent directly to me following my 
posting--reading it is only for the hardy, perhaps swallowed most 
easily with a big shot of gin in front of yourself --   He didn't send 
it directly to DJML just because he's "that kind of guy" - - --Quote as 
follows:

> Bill, I did a double-take when I read your comment about not looking 
> at the living bands interpreting or pitching OKOM. I’m a newbie to 
> this list, but I have found it largely disappointing for its (by and 
> large) pedantic focus on who was playing 2nd cornet during the air 
> check in 1933 when it’s known that so-and-so took a bathroom break. 
>  Making that example up, but it’s consistent with the drone of 
> bickering/yammering that pervades most of this discussion, and I think 
> it misses the point.  At least it misses any point that I am 
> interested in -- as a “young” (mid-50s) player/bandleader -- which is 
> the state of OKOM delivery and appreciation today. And that can be a 
> fairly broad subject encompassing players/bands/performance, new and 
> old adaptations of the music, and the biz.  Don’t get me wrong, DJML 
> trivial pursuit has its place — I am an amateur music historian myself 
> -- but it seems to be the dominant focus of a lot of list members, who 
> themselves have pretty “dominant” personalities and opinions. (It’s 
> the same dozen guys talking to themselves.) That dry stuff can only go 
> so far for the rest of us unless you happen to be totally living with 
> your memories. I prefer to think that the OKOM glass is half full 
> today and microscoping its past leaves me pretty bored. Which is why I 
> will not become a regular contributor to this list.  (And what happens 
> next when those same dozen guys join the big jam session in the sky?)

[End of quote  . . .Returning to my stuff]   . .. Did Keeely Smith 
sweat, or perspire?