[Dixielandjazz] Need Info Re Jazz Funeral

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I try to get $100 per man for the first hour and $25 for each hour after 
that.  I would probably take $100 each if it wasn't over two hours.  You 
sound like there might be a three way split site ie: wake / Church / 
gravesite.  I would treat it as three separate jobs unless they are really 
close together  Wake two hours $125 each, Mass 1 hour $100 and graveside add 
$25 for each hour spent traveling and performing.

I could see a 4 pc group getting $500 for the wake and assuming 3 hours for 
church and graveside another $800 or $1300 total.  That would give them $300 
each and you $400  This would depend on what the local musician would get. 
New York would be a lot different than here.

Funerals are expensive things starting an average of $6000 here without 
music.

I guess it depends on how much money you want to make and how much they want 
to pay and how much your help costs.  I did a memorial several months ago 
and got $75 for a little over an hour but I was a sideman.  We got lunch 
too.
Larry
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Need Info Re Jazz Funeral


> Hello Listmates, I have just joined the list after a lengthy absence.In 
> line
> with the current thread concerning musicians pay scales,I wanted to ask 
> about
> whether there is any information for an individual who wishes to be 
> remembered
> with some type of jazz funeral. My thoughts are for a wake or viewing 
> period
> of two hours where friends could pay respects to the deceased and 
> surviving
> family members with appropriate soft dixieland music for an hour or so. At 
> or
> during the funeral mass a few selections could be rendered like amazing 
> grace,
> little while to stay here and closer walk with thee.......At the grave 
> site
> ceremony a small band could play oh didn't he ramble and conclude with 
> When the
> Saints go marching in.    What would something like this cost?  Last year 
> I
> had a serious hospitalization and nearly bought the farm so to speak....so 
> I
> feel its high time to explore these needs.and final wishes...I have been a 
> trad
> jazz enthusiast since birth in 1934.....President of the central Iowa Trad 
> Jazz
> Society.........Jazzman Joe............
>
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