[Dixielandjazz] Joey Morant (sorry, pal, you'll be buying your own beers for awhile)

[David Dustin]

Tamas wrote:
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> Marek, I'm sorry to say but Joey is awful. We heard him play at Pori
> Jazz last summer. He wanted me to listen to him and then to invite him
> to my festival. Thank God, I listened. He is very energetic, high range,
> but absolutely non-sense trumpet player. He blew off everybody's head,
> the audience loved him but he turned around three times in two choruses
> in When The Saints. And came back 3 beats earlier for the final chorus
> in the same tune. He did the same kind of mistakes in Sweet Georgia
> Brown and Bourbon Street. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't been there.
> He is a very strongly self-promoting person - with his possible business
> partners and on stage, too. He played high notes with not a single
> phrase intended to tell you something, mean something. There is no sense
> to listen to him, no reason to invite him. He is a clown. He is
> interested in one thing: delighting the audience. Well, the majority of
> the audience was delighted. But only with showmanship and not music, not
> jazz. And that was to be a music festival, a jazz festival. And his
> partners were Antti Sarpila and his guys on that occasion. Great crew,
> VERY good musicians. Plus this clown. It was horrible for us....
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Let me see, I¹m guessing Tamas didn¹t like this guy.  Dunno what the problem
is: missing/adding turnarounds and coming in 3 beats early sounds like a
perfect fit for MY band.  Anybody got Joey¹s number?

David Dustin