[Dixielandjazz] How do you respond?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

My point Larry and all is that we must First find a way to establish 
some meaningful dialog with them which gets them to tell us what they 
think they want to hire in the way of music, and then determine what we 
would call it to make it at least appear to be what they have in mind.  
  They too have no idea what it is called most of the time.   
Unfortunately most of the time it is non musicians that hire musicians 
:))

They usually do not speak our language.   A tough situation no matter 
how we address it, but if we don't meet them head on and try we shall 
all be doomed to just sit back and wait for the one person left on 
earth that knows what we play is.   This is particularly hard for 
musicians and bands that only play one genre of music and want to 
remain or be considered Professional.   See many folks out there in the 
real world think that Musicians can actually Play any song in the 
world.   Yep they are that musically ignorant.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: larrys.bands at charter.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com; tcashwigg at aol.com
Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] How do you respond?

    Well then if the young people have no idea what we are talking about 
then just what would you tell them we play? 
 Larry 
 St. Louis 
 ----- Original Message ----- From: <tcashwigg at aol.com> 
 To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:56 PM 
 Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] How do you respond? 
 
 > Hi Jon: with all respect for whatever it is that you do, you are 
  > definitely limiting yourself to the gigs you can actually secure 
with 
 > those words. 
 > 
  > Most people hiring bands to day don't even know what the Hell WWII 
was, 
  > they also do not know h=who Elvis was, or even the Beatles who 
replaced 
 > him on the stage. You immediately place your band as dinosaurs with 
 > those kind of answers. 
 > 
  > How can you expect young folks to hire you if they don't have 
ANYTHING 
 > even remotely to associate your music with. 
 > 
  > Never never never assume that these kids have a clue as to what you 
are 
 > talking about. 
 > 
 > Pre War Jazz means to them what ever was just before Iraq. Most of 
 > them still don't even know about Viet Nam. So when you speak of pre 
  > war you will almost always get that deer in the headlights look, 
just 
 > before they walk off. 
 > 
  > And if it had not been for Hurricane Katrina most of them would have 
no 
 > clue where New Orleans is either. 
 > 
 > Ya'll older guys really do need to get a lot hipper to the Jive, no 
 > wonder OKOM and Trad Jazz is so far down the list, many of ya'll are 
 > 60 years behind in MARKETING, and still talking as if it is 1950. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message----- 
 > From: jon at jonstutler.com 
 > To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com 
 > Sent: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:03 PM 
 > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] How do you respond? 
 > 
 > > > You wrote: 
 >> > 
 >> >>To all successful band leaders: 
  >> >>How do you respond to the question "What kind of music do you 
play"? 
 > 
 > 
 > We say, "Original, Traditional Jazz, a. la. New Orleans". If there 
 > remains 
  > a puzzled look, we borrow Jim Cullum's definition of "Pre-war Jazz". 
If 
 > there are STILL puzzled looks, we say "B.E. - Before Elvis". That 
 > usually 
 > guarantees some level of understanding. 
 > 
 > Thanks, 
 > Jon Stutler , Razzmajazz www.razzmajazz.com 
 > Office/Mobile 817-233-4149 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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