[Dixielandjazz] Women in Jazz - was Singers

[Marek Boym]

Speaking of female trombonist, there is Christine (I cannot recall her
surname right now, but I've seen shows where she was labelled just
"Christine") who plays with Bob Oliver's British band.  She is really
excellent.  Bob Oliver also has (or had when I heard the band in Bude)
a female brass bass palyer.  Hence, when he introduced I neve knew
what a gal could do," he added: "until I had two of them in my band."
Cheers

On 26/05/07, Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >From our experience, most any audience appreciates women in jazz, be they
> singers or instrumentalists.
>
> We have a female trombonist in our trombone rotation since Glenn Dodson
> passed away. The audiences adore her. She doesn't sing, but she plays the
> hell out of the trombone. She is a big band trombonist, not much experience
> in Dixieland, but has great ears and reads treble clef lead sheets. Big
> sound, lots of energy. By year end, she'll be a Dixieland player.
>
> Folks don't normally see women in small jazz bands and so they listen
> intently to her and always question her, on break, about how she got hooked
> up with a bunch of old men. (she's about 35) No question that she adds to
> the band persona among the audiences. That's one reason Dizzy Gillespie used
> Melba Liston in his big band.
>
> So, the trumpet player and I sing. Not well, but that is not the point. We
> know how to sing to the audience. Like there is no better connection than
> singing "I Want A Little Girl" to some College Girls, or modifying the lyric
> to be PC, to a ten year old. (I want a little girl to dance a lot . . . I'd
> give all the beads I've got . . . to a little girl who'd dance around for
> me", etc. I've had as many as 20 little girls at a time dancing around at
> Street Festivals for beads when I sing it like that.
>
> Our trumpet player sings "Someday You'll Be Sorry" after prefacing it with a
> quick sound bit about Louis Armstrong always had an extra woman in the
> wings, because he felt his regular woman would eventually treat him badly.
> And so he wrote this "Get Even" song for all you women who treat jazz
> musicians badly, and there are a lot of you out there. Always gets an "oh
> yeah, right", and a big grin from women in the audience.
>
> Those kind of vocals, made relevant to the audience, are superb connectors
> and you get undivided attention.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
>
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