[Dixielandjazz] FW: Al Hirt Describing His Music

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Jim:

Yes, it can often be narrow indeed , but like you said If you choose to 
make it narrow.  I choose to not make mine narrow and it has been very 
rewarding to do it my way so far.


In my opinion, for what it's worth, I don't find Dixieland music to be 
a narrow genre, but I have met a lot of very narrow minded Dixieland 
critics and musicians who refuse to expand it beyond the narrow 
interpretations of it, that they particularly like or feel the most 
comfortable in hearing and or playing.

Perhaps if Dr. Timothy Leary had laced a few of their beers back in the 
sixties with his mind altering LSD they would have expanded their 
musical horizons a bit and pushed the envelope to make more of it 
acceptable to younger generations and still being able to preserve the 
original roots of the genre at the same time.   I think far too many 
simply retreated from the Front Lines of the music industry and turned 
tail and ran to the rear as fast a s possible and decided to become 
Preservationist rather than pioneers.

But that's just my opinion, good or bad.  If da shoe fit wear it if not 
go barefooted in the park.


Cheers,

Tom  "Burger King"  Have it Your Way  Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: jim at kashprod.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 7:58 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] FW:  Al Hirt Describing His Music

   ---start snip
Although Hirt came out of New Orleans leading a Dixieland band, he 
never let
himself get stereotyped in that narrow genre.
---end snip

Steve added:
In that vein, Anne Davison once said to me: "Many people think of Bill 
as a
'Dixielander'. They are ignorant, He is so much more than that."
One never knows, do one?


I add:
Both phrases knock our kind of jazz, one says it is a "narrow genre", 
and
the other uses Dixielander as a bad word, practically.

Is it narrow?  If you make it.
Is it a bad word?  If you insist on dumping all the garbage that is
sometimes applied to the word (normally by Americans).

Jim



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