[Dixielandjazz] Jazz in Europe

[Marek Boym]

Hello,
No, I don't know the band in question.  My knowledge of European jazz comes 
mainly from the jazz festivals I've attended - in the UK, Holland, France 
and Poland (once - in 2003).  Plus, I'm not interested in post-bop stuff 
(Ilisten to Diz, Bird, Teryy - but don't tell anybody).
Cheers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Dustin" <postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org>
To: "Marek Boym" <nmboym at 012.net.il>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz in Europe



Marek -- At last, somebody else who has heard of the Beau Hunks!  Those guys
are terrific.  And I am sure you know all about the Janne Errsson Big Band,
which just blows me away in all senses of the word!  Definitely there is
great jazz in Europe, and maybe somebody there will be in the Middle East,
who knows?  Looks like Elazar is making great progress with the Ministry of
Jazz.  But I'd prefer something more colorful, like the Dead Sea Falafel
Stompers.  Get some horns together and take it with my blessing!  :)

Shalom,
David


On 1/2/07 11:00 AM, "Marek Boym" <nmboym at 012.net.il> wrote:

> Hello David,
> While my country is indeed fantastic, it is not The Netherlands - it's
> Israel.  However, there's not that much jazz here.
> You should hear the (enlarged) Beau Hunks' Linceford tribute!  I'm not 
> sure
> they still play it.  It was something they prepared for last year's North
> Sea Jazz Festival - probably the only jazz event there (to me - Not OKOM =
> not jazz, but OKOM includes big bands - try the Dutch Dirty Dozen or
> Victoria).
> There are so many excellent bands in Europe - France, The Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain, Poland, Hungary - you name the country, they have good
> jazz there (I don't really know about the Balkan countries).
> Cheers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Dustin" <postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:30 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz in Europe
>
>
>
> Marek wrote:
>
>>> So, perhaps jazz has emigrated and is alive and well in Europe (and
>>> other places, Japan for example)/
>
> Sigh, I shouldn¹t take this bait but I worked overseas for many years and
> have always been amazed at the superlative quality of jazz performance in
> Europe. Everybody has probably heard of Ronnie Scott¹s in London. But it¹s
> far beyond that club.  It¹s non-OKOM, but for my money, the hottest big 
> band
> today is the Janne Errsson Big Band which tours and plays out of Sweden.
> They have a website < check it out if you want to hear a KILLER big band 
> in
> the Buddy Rich mold.  And for OKOMers, a Dutch group called the Beau Hunks
> laboriously and meticulously transcribed the music tracks from the Little
> Rascals films and put out a terrific homage CD in the early 1990s.  Then
> they recreated/recorded the 1930s/1940s jazz of composer Raymond Scott, a
> year or two later.  These are FINE musicians and scholars of American jazz
> in the OKOM tradition.
>
> But my all-time favorite BIG band has to be the Netherlands¹ Metropole
> Orchestra, which has been playing jazz since about 1945, now has about 50
> players (I¹m not making this up), all on state salaries, and is or was led
> by a monster arranger by the name of Rob Pronk who has been compared to
> Quincy Jones and arranged for Artie Shaw (before his death) and other
> American jazzmen.
>
> Even if you don¹t like big band jazz, OKOM people should at least know 
> that
> this kind of EXCELLENT stuff is going on in Europe (and Down Under), where
> it is treasured and nurtured in the way that it IS NOT here in the U.S.A.
> where it was born and came of age!  Ask me if I am proud of Hoppity Hip or
> Rap which is blasted out globally as the emblem of our current state of
> cultural achievement.  (Hell, I even heard solid OKOM jazz being played in
> MOSCOW in the 1970s, and it had been outlawed there by Stalin. Go figure!)
>
> Besides our current deplorable foreign policy and worldview, Americans
> should be ashamed at the manner in which we ignore the cardinal arts of 
> our
> country and culture.  (IMO, of course.)
>
> Marek, my jazz friend, I¹m buying a plane ticket and we¹ll pub-crawl and
> listen devoutly to some of the fantastic JAZZ that is supported and
> propagated by your enlightened country...
>
> Dave Dustin
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