[Dixielandjazz] Some People Want To Dance

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Dan:

Because the Twit in charge of entertainment at the Country Club went to 
school for food and beverage management and knows nothing about music 
but they give him/her the job so they don't have to hire a professional 
or even hire a professional bandleader  that would or should know, to 
program the entertainment at the Club.

Now there you have it, as a Paying customer you need to go complain to 
the Top level management at the club about it and explain why, trust me 
they are too ignorant or naive to know the difference.  Obviously!

Some bands will take ANY GIG  and especially on New Years Eve, and many 
Country Clubs and other venues will also HIRE ANY BAND for the same 
reasons,   Who and what is available and for How much.   As I have said 
before, there is a large void of ignorance out there amongst 
entertainment buyers who simply believe that Any Band is capable of 
playing anything they need, since we all know every song in the world.  
  Competent musicians and bandleaders often need to go that extra mile 
and do some extra activity to program music in good places properly.   
everyone out there in the corporate and event planning world is not 
Music savvy, as a matter of fact many of them are quite naive and often 
quite ignorant about anything music related.   They need education and 
they don't get this training in Hotel or food and beverage management 
schools.

So if some of you want an extra income, research those schools and get 
yourself hired on as a Consultant and teach some courses on how to buy 
and program professional entertainment, you would be doing all of us a 
big worthwhile service, PROVIDED OF COURSE THAT YOIU KNOW HOW to do it 
and not fill every gig with only YKOM, but actually take into 
consideration the event and the clientele that you have to service.   I 
have also seen many musicians and bandleaders misuse the position of 
Entertainment director just as badly by trying to ONLy fill their own 
calendar with all the gigs and not hiring the proper other acts that 
would be better suited for the gig.  They also get fired quickly.

Cheers,

Tom "Do it Right or don't do it at all"  Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: DWSI at aol.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Some People Want To Dance

    Our New Year's Eve dinner party opened my eyes. My wife, 
mother-in-law, and
I attended a country club gala with a "7 piece live orchestra" and we 
were
excited. My wife and mother-in-law love to dance. I mean really dance. 
We
shouldn't have gone. The 7 pieces centered on a loud, very bop-oriented 
sax
player, with a very strong, (one beat), drummer. Now, don't get me 
wrong. I
understand why musicians must practice their scales. But aren't we 
supposed do
that
when we're alone, instead of all night long, on a so-called, "dance  
job?"
With two song exceptions, this 7-piece "orchestra" focused on the  same
up-and-down-the-scales sax solo, (at best approaching a poor man's 
Blues'

Brothers
feeling), with all the old folks, (like me), moving-but not really  
dancing-on
the alledged dance floor. Even my sweet mother-in-law, who is  very 
forgiving
and kind, said it was "jiggle" music, not dance music; you go out  on 
the dance
floor and jiggle around. My point is a simple one. Isn't there a  huge 
market
for OKOM dance occasions? I used to dance to Dixie and even Ragtime,  
not to
mention the world of other OKOM varieties. My god! Whatever happened to 

booking OKOM for dancing? What am I not getting? And why is a bopper 
even
playing a
dance job?

Dan (backup piano) Spink
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