[Dixielandjazz] Creole Xmas at Preservation Hall - Creole not Dixieland

[Tito Martino]

Hi Nancy

glad to hear from you ! Accept please my best wishes for your 2008 !
OK I'm aware of that circunstance you're pointing at, but anyway probably
the only creole content there was some delicious appetizers and gumbos
and jambalayas served at table... :-)  ;-)
I wish was there !

Yes I know about Sarpilla and he's indeed a great Jazz player, in the 
line of
Bob Wilber. I jammed with Wilber here in São Paulo in 1978 and played in 
his curved soprano sax;
and cooked a jambalaya for him in my apartment in Bern/Swiss when I was 
living there.
Great guy and a genius player.   Never heard about Jeff Beaumont.

Please take a look at      www.dailymotion.com/titomartino
you will see 10 videos very good recorded by public TV in São Paulo 
during my last appearance with my former band the Traditional Jazz 
Band.  Extensive clarinet and soprano playing, ready for the flak....  

cheers 

Tito







Nancy Giffin wrote:
> Dear Marek, Tito, Bob, and list mates,
>
> In all fairness, note the title of that YouTube clip was
> "Creole Christmas at Preservation Hall."
> There would have been an entirely different lineup of NOLA musicians if it
> had instead been called a "Dixieland Christmas."
> (Perhaps Creoles would say it wasn't really Creole either???)
> Did we get all the names? I know there was Tom Fischer on cl, Big Al Carson
> on voc, Mark Braud on tpt, and Jesse Boyd on b. ?Piano, drums, trombone?
>
> Tito, I've had the pleasure of meeting you and hearing your music,
> so (in addition to the musicians you named), I think you would enjoy the
> music of a reed player from Finland named Antti Sarpila. He is 43 years old
> and has studied with Bob Wilber. Although he leads a swing band in Finland,
> his tone and style while playing trad. jazz on the sop. sax are reminiscent
> of Sidney Bechet. Here in CA, Jeff Beaumont also brings Bechet to mind.
>
> And even if the "Creole Christmas" is not the finest example of Tom
> Fischer's clarinet work, I think he is one of the better reed players in the
> U.S. today. He plays from the heart.
>  
> Love and hugs,
> Nancy
>
> Re: Creole Xmas at Preservation Hall,
> "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm with Tito all the way!
> Cheers,
> Marek
>
> On 03/01/2008, Tito Martino <tmartino at terra.com.br> wrote:
>   
>> Bob Romans asks:
>> I'm interested in comments about this presentation from my Listmates...
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zpJmhEZII&feature=related
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Bob Romans,
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Well, Bob, what can I say.... That is not the Preservation Hall that I knew
>> and certainly if it sticks to this trend, is not anymore the place for hearing
>> Traditional Jazz... Attention ! I am NOT against what is being played in that
>> clip, and I am not against ANY type or style of music. I simply don?t identify
>> myself with this kind of popularized New Orleans music, I even don't call it
>> "JAZZ", because it misses strongly most of the original musical roots, misses
>> the sacred fire and misses the grandeur of the Preservation Hall Bands with
>> Louis Nelson, Sweet Emma, George Lewis, Sammy Penn, Jim Robinson, need I say
>> more?!  They are all gone, I know, but we can find in the entire world dozens
>> of Traditional Jazz Bands with younger jazzmen playing well in the "old"
>> style, not a copy attention!, they just use the form and the musical syntax to
>> re-create their own Jazz. (Take f/ex. Evan Christopher, Dr. White, Don Vappie,
>> and the Gota River Jazz Band in Sweden, the Bogalusa New Orleans Jazzband in
>> Switzerland, the Rascals in Japan!   etc. etc.). I can listen to that video
>> clip, but with a certain sadness and regret considering how musically poor and
>> bare in imagination it seems, compared to the "originals" of 60's and 70's !
>> Certainly the economical situation in NO is rude and hard, the musicians at
>> hand have to play, that's the reason I accept and endorse /socially/ this
>> trend, but musically...   let's hope for something better! That's my feeling.
>> Cheers, Tito Martino
>>     
>
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