[Dixielandjazz] Mission Impossible

[harold troughton]

 Hello Folks. Happy new YearHere is my first  ever posting. 
Readers of Bill Sargent's recent post may be interested in a piece I posted recently on a most interesting traditional jazz site here in North west England 
. http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzworld/index.htm  Plenty bands, photos clips etc.
Facts.... The music media, Radio, TV, ,& especially the record industry have been pumping out non- jazz since the Beatles revolution around 1960 to the exclusion of traditional jazz ie ( New Orleans,- Chicago style- Dixieland,- Swing ). 
Therefore, no surprise when the vast majority of under 40 year olds (Through no fault of their own) perceive jazz with indifference, cloth-eared bewilderment, or downright hostility. 
The average person  aged under forty/fifty  suffers from " The Magic Cakehole Syndrome" i.e. " If it ain't some person singing it ain't music.
 Budding  young jazz players today face peer group pressure, fewer opportunities to practice their art, and an inevitable age related audience void in the longer term. 
Jazzers would not attend a Sex Pistols concert so why expect today's youngsters to dig Eddie Condon's brand of New York Dixieland ? I am old enough to witness the birth of the DJ phenomenon in 1950 when during the interval of a gig in Warrington a guy walked on the stage, placed a portable record player on a chair and proceeded to play records to the dancers. This turned out to be the tip of the iceberg... SOME ICEBERG! --- DISCO had arrived 
In an age when Charlie Parker plays "Traditional "jazz, - when Louis Armstrong was the "First man on the moon" times are hard for lovers of jazz. In the meantime, let's go down fighting. Nil Illegitimate Carborundum etc. 
 
 In the late fifties one John Lennon -a  jazz hating member of an up & coming Liverpol  beat group told members of the then popular working trad musicians "It's time you guys moved over I'ts our turn now"  Unfortunately it all came to pass.
 
   Harold Troughton. Blue Magnolia Jass Orchestra  Liverpool UK
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