[Dixielandjazz] Authentic 1920s gangster music...or not?

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

>While I know that many OKOMers want the umpteenth version of Royal
>Garden Blues or That's a Plenty, I really get tired of listening to
>them again and again ... and again!

Amen ---I like to hear tunes that aren't in the top 40 of Dixie.  I think 
the Saints is just a lovely tune but I don't want to hear it on every 
recording or maybe even never.

I think the thing that I really don't care for is the extended soloing that 
turns a three minute tune into a 10 minute tune and then do it again on the 
next tune and the next tune.  I just get tired.  For example I like Blue 
Grass for about 10 minutes but no more because it's just so repetitious. 
Once you have heard a tune, endless permutations of it doesn't really turn 
me on.

My band is more ensemble oriented and solos, if there are any, are not over 
32 bars and are usually shorter.  Some of the arrangements that I use are 
written that way with four or more solos in a row.  We usually cut all but 
one.  I would rather play six shorter tunes than four long ones.  I think it 
keeps the audience from getting bored.  Someone mentioned 6 tune sets and if 
a set is an hour or 45 minutes then that's way too long IMHO to keep tunes 
going.  In a recent 2 hour concert with a short break we played 31 tunes. 
That's about 15 tunes an hour or about 3-4 minutes per tune with a short 
intro talk in between.  I prefer to keep things moving.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Authentic 1920s gangster music...or not?


Hello, David,
Neve mind the Tin Pan Alley detritus, but jazz bands of the twenties
played a lot of numbers that seem to have disappeared.  How many times
have you heard "Feeling no Pain," or "Tat's no Bargain?"  Yet in the
twenties they were recorded many times.  I heard them played a few
years ago in Breda - as part of a Red Nichols tribute.  But other than
that?  And how about "Freshman Hop?"  Judgin by the severa
performances by Jack Pettis - an excellent song!

While I know that many OKOMers want the umpteenth version of Royal
Garden Blues or That's a Plenty, I really get tired of listening to
them again and again ... and again!  They are so overplayed that very
few musicians can say anything original while playing them (perhaps
the late Kenny Davern, or, of those playing now, Bob Wilber, but who
else?).
Cheers


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