[Dixielandjazz] Allan Vache, Randy Reinhart, Phil Flanagan, Rod Blumeneau, Bob Livingston

[Rodgerdevore at aol.com]

Hello,

Tomorrow, Sunday 5/20, from 3 to about 7 The Jazz Appreciation Society of 
Syracuse (JASS) presents "The East Coast All-Stars" at the Marietta Inn, 2815 Rte 
174 (mapquest),Marietta, NY (near Skaneateles) This is a great venue and the 
drive from anyplace along Rte. 20 is one of the prettiest you'll find 
anywhere.

The gents mentioned in the subject box will be accompanied by Hannah 
Richardson on vocals. Hannah does a lot of Maxine Sullivan songs.

I don't have to tell you this is  a terrific line-up and worth driving a long 
way through beautiful Upstate NY to listen to. The cost is $15.00 and you can 
order to feed the body, as well as the soul. This will be a good one. 

Next week-end is The Grand INternational Ragtime/ Jasstime Festival at 
Alexandria Bay. Below is an email about that from Wayne Pauli (Scarborough, 
Ontario).

I have had a jazz radio program (Drivetime Downbeat) for about a year now on 
WITC Cazenovia College 88.9 M&W 16:30  - 18:05. I air the real thing from the 
twenties through today's musicians (including many young ones like The Mighty 
Aphrodite) playing the music of the "Great American Songbook" era. I hope it 
doesn't sound immodest when I say everybody - all ages - seems to like it. 
Maybe going to do web-casting but don't know yet.

I play everybody from Bix through Mulligan and Zoot and Al.  I met most of 
the best of the Modern Jazz era through long-time friend David X. Young (Google) 
and his 'jazz loft' (I gave CNN much of their material). There were also many 
guys from Condon's, Dave Mckenna, Kenny Davern, et al. 

Living in NYC and Boston I've met several score of the best including Red 
Norvo, Wild Bill, Charlie Byrd, Major Holley, Warren Chiasson, Maheu, Pud Brown, 
Ralph Sutton, Bob Wilbur, Vince Giordano, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Quinichette, 
Roy Eldridge, Ed Polcer, Bob Haggart, Yank Lawson, Bucky - the list is really 
too long for here. I talked with Nicki Parrot and Les Paul a couple of weeks ago 
at The Iridium. 

The purpose of this name dropping is to assure you that good jazz is really 
alive and
faily well. Everybody likes the good stuff. As Leonard Bernstein said: "The 
most exciting sound in music is a GOOD Dixieland band at full tilt". (cont. 
below)

Subj:   Re: (no subject)    
Date:   5/8/2007 8:11:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time   
From:   Wnpauli 
To: Rodgerdevore    
    


Hi Roger,
 
I won't have a schedule until the festival but I can give you some 
information.
 
Piano players are: "Professor" Don Burns, Jeff Barthart, Gabriel Bourque, 
Jack Hutton, Dave Tucker, Jordan Klapman, Bill Westcott.
 
Bands: The Ragweed Jazz Band, Le Dixieband, The Jambalaya Jazz Band
 
Specialty Groups: The Royal City Saxophone Quartet, Ivory & Gold (Jeff & Anne 
Barnhart and Danny Coots).
 
Music starts Friday 6:30, Saturday 11:40 and Evening 6:30, Sunday 9:00, 
Finishes at 2:00pm.
 
Passes available for Friday night $20pp, Saturday $25pp, Weekend $45pp.
 
Thanks for any support you may give us.
 
Wayne Pauli
TGIRJF

(Cont.) We had the Jambalaya Jazz band (with others) at our annual Bix 
Birthday Bash and they are hot, hot.

Hang in there, everbody. We may be able to beat those no-good record 
companies that have wrecked everthing with their payola (Time-Warner settled out of 
court about a year ago with Eliot Spitzer's AG office for $5,000,000. A total of 
about 25mm was extracted from several of these media giants just in NYS 
alone). A good book on payola is "The Hit Men" (Dannen 1990). 

This is pretty long. Most 'jazz' on the airwaves - including NPR and XM - is 
very bad thanks to payola, and people don't like it - ask any kid. As Jack 
Maheu says: "there are two kinds of jazz - good and bad" People respond very 
strongly to the good stuff - including EVEN HIGH SCHOOL KIDS. I could tell you 
stories.

Sincerely,

Roger De Vore
Board member - Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse
Cazenovia, NY 13035





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