[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland and Steady Gigs

[Steve Barbone]

Below is excerpted from a NY Times article on Kenny Werner's band. Note that
this is where ex-OKOM trumpeter Nicholas Payton is these days. Perhaps an
interesting message if we look at OKOM as "jazz performed that's so
detailed, chiseled and compressed with energy that its hard to imagine the
musicians doing it twice a night, six nights in a row".

Has most OKOM become so detailed etc., that we can't make it fresh or
interesting enough to survive in a "working jazz band" environment?

Has it become relegated, therefore, to occasional performance?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone 


YEP, THAT'S QUITE A BAND, BUT ITS DAYS ARE NUMBERED

NY TIMES - By BEN RATLIFF - March 8, 2007

Occasionally you hear jazz performed that¹s so detailed, chiseled and
compressed with energy that it¹s hard to imagine the musicians doing it
twice a night, six nights in a row. Such is the case with the pianist Kenny
Werner¹s quintet at Dizzy¹s Club this week. . .

His quintet at Dizzy¹s includes Chris Potter on tenor saxophone, Nicholas
Payton on trumpet, Hans Glawischnig on bass and Brian Blade on drums. . .

It isn¹t a working band; after this week it has no more dates on the
calendar. Yet it was crazy how much it behaved like one, in the
old-fashioned sense of steady comportment spread across consecutive solos,
and the front line¹s strong connection to the rhythm section.