[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Educators

[Marek Boym]

Definitelu support TJEN.

On 23/04/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The recent demise of the IAJE is tragic. What now?
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> One course of action is to do nothing. Or wait for a new organization to
> form and hope that they will support trad.
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> But will they? Perhaps not because the vast majority of music teachers are
> young and they believe trad jazz is Bop. Not their fault, they were raised
> in an era when OKOM was passe.
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> Perhaps the best course of action is to get behind the TJEN. Here is a group
> that supports OKOM and already has somewhat of a base.
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> One thing we might remember is to keep OKOM flexible, and relevant to the
> young. Sometime IMO, we try and shove King Oliver or (insert your favorite
> name) as the only true OKOM form. Give the kids jazz freedom to develop
> their own versions of  polyphonic counterpoint as the late Jim Beebe called
> OKOM  more than once on the DJML.
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> The other thing we might remember is that when we (over 70 year old jazz
> musicians) were in schools, there was no jazz taught. Many of the legendary
> players came up without school training. Perhaps we should rethink how and
> why that happened and how we can enable it again.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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