[Dixielandjazz] A clip from a new CD Review

[Stephen G Barbone]

Could Randy Newman's "dip into Dixieland" be a trend? Maybe so. We  
drew 600 people at $10 each, to a 2  hour concert in Ocean City NJ  
last night, and sold 71 CDs.  One attendee who lives in Sarasota  
Florida and is involved with their jazz festival asked where we'd been  
hiding. "In plain sight" we said, "at local venues like this with the  
general public."
And, in NYC, there are now several Dixieland bands competing with each  
other for audiences at nightclubs every Sunday night. And more OKOM is  
becoming visible during the week there. Played by professionals who  
make their living by performing and teaching etc.
And check out Jim Fryer's schedule at:
http://web.mac.com/jamesfryer1/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
click on "upcoming events"
Three cheers for momentum and positive thinkers

Cheers,
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

NY TIMES - August 4, 2008 - New CDs
RANDY NEWMAN  “Harps and Angels” (Nonesuch)

Randy Newman can do saccharine and he can do sour. At his best,  
though, his songs deliver complex flavors, with a pungent but  
searching ambivalence. “Harps and Angels,” his first album of new  
songs since “Bad Love” in 1999, presents a mess of conflicting  
feelings and motives. Intermittently brilliant, occasionally  
belligerent, it presents a vision of American identity as sprawling  
and ultimately as confused as the country itself. . . . snip to.

The songs dip into Dixieland, country and, in the case of a  
satirically bigoted tune called “Korean Parents,” a flash of  
Orientalism. . . .  by NATE CHINEN



Steve Barbone

www.barbonestreet.com
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