[Dixielandjazz] Noo toons

[Ivor Jones]

Hi Don,
We are only a small jazzband in the Algarve Portugal, but we have enough 
tunes to play. Looking down last night's playlist it appears we played.

That's you baby
Midnight Mama
Strut miss Lizzie
Sensation
Barnyard Blues
Mandy, make up your mind
Taint no Sin
Misissippi Mama
Was I drunk
Limehouse blues
Masculine Women and Feminine Men
On revival day
Forty and tight
Flaming Mamie
My Canary's Got Circles Under His Eyes
Potato Head Blues
New Orleans (Hoagy)
Buddy's Habit
Creole Song
Hiawatha
Nagasaki

Does that mean we are doing something right

Ivor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Mopsick" <mophandl at landing.com>
To: "iVOR jONES" <BANJONES at sapo.pt>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] (no subject)


> Dan: the problem is not that there is a lack of good tunes for jazz bands 
> to
> play that come from the pre-war era, the problem is that you are not
> familiar with the existing ones that hardly ever get played by today's
> "Dixieland" bands. And I'm talking about great tunes that were played many
> times by many different great, swinging and stomping bands such as
> Armstrong, Bix, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, and the Bob Crosby Bob Cats,
> not un-jazz obscurities and novelty tunes that get played by
> banjo/ragtime/nostalgia/show bands today like "My Canary's Got Circles 
> Under
> His Eyes" and "Radio."
>
>
> Strut Miss Lizzie
>
> Oh, Sister, Ain't That Hot!
>
> Palesteena
>
> Mournin' Blues
>
> Big Boy
>
> Black Bottom Stomp
>
> Chicago Breakdown
>
> Delta Bound
>
> Dogtown Blues
>
> Eccentric Rag
>
> Eventide
>
> Fireworks
>
> Gypsy Love Song
>
> I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
>
> King Chanticleer
>
> Mahogany Hall Stomp
>
> Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
>
> Muddy Water
>
> New Orleans Stomp
>
> Oriental Strut
>
> Prince of Wails
>
> Rose of the Rio Grande
>
> She's Cryin' For Me
>
> Singin' the Blues
>
> Spain
>
> Susie
>
> That's No Bargain
>
> Weather Bird Rag
>
> Song of the Wanderer
>
>
>
> Anything worth having is worth working for. YOU must pay the dues, do the
> work of researching these and many, many other tunes, learing how to play
> them with the original melody and changes and finding out where they came
> from, who recorded them, and why they are great works of art. In my 
> opinion
> this is the most noble work a musician can do. Again, these are NOT
> obscurities, they all were recorded repeatedly through many decades by the
> best in the business. The simple fact is that there is an OCEAN of good
> tunes right in the style bulls-eye of the most classic jazz that ever was,
> all there for you to play, without your having to resort to out-of-bounds
> inappropriate repertoire.
>
>
>
> (Where, you may ask, do I find this great stuff? Well, there's Google. 
> And,
> here's another shortcut: www.riverwalkjazz.org
> <http://www.riverwalkjazz.org/> )
>
>
>
> It's just not enough for your band to play the Bourbon Street Top 10
> (Bourbon St. Parade, The Saints, Ain't She Sweet, If You Knew Susie, St.
> James Infirmary, Basin Street Blues, etc.) and sell yourselves as a JAZZ
> band. Further, with all the rich material available to you, why would you
> want Hostess Twinkies when you can have lobster tail?
>
>
>
> All I ask is this: I know that imitation is a most sincere form of 
> flattery,
> but please write your own arrangements and don't steal ours. And, go find
> some different tunes than we play so WE can steal them.
>
>
>
> Curmudgeonly,
>
>
>
> mopo
>
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