[Dixielandjazz] Al Hirt: Not jazz?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

I highly doubt it since he opened and played at his Own JAZZ CLUB in 
New Orleans on Bourbon Street for a long time.

I'd say Mr. Hirt considered himself a Jazz Trumpeter of a very high 
caliber too.   But see it's so easy to diss him and call him a POP 
trumpeter who sold out the real jazzers to go commercial and become 
successful rather than a lump headed artsy fartsy starving artists 
always looking for WELFARE FROM  THE NEA AND PERFORMING ARTS 
BENEFACTORS TO SUPPORT HIM so he wouldn't really have to work hard at 
having a career and earning his money.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins



-----Original Message-----
From: mjl at ix.netcom.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Al Hirt:  Not jazz?

    This, from a blurb from a new Hirt CD 
(http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/storeR.cgi?cart_id=01-23-07.wrnr1.1
3019&specific=itemcode&phrase=60077):

"This CD assembles selections from Al Hirt's four-decade career and 
celebrates
the joy in music. Al Hirt was an insturmental pop phenomenon during the 
60's - a
pop, commercial musician, and had a succesful format. He is not a jazz 
trumpet
and never was a jazz trumpet."

Maybe not ONLY jazz, but not jazz at all?  Would Mr Hirt agree with 
this?,

--
Etc,

Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon, Vicar-general
North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
Archdiocese of California
www.naorc.org

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