[Dixielandjazz] A Question From Igor

[Marek Boym]

"Monk tunes as Dixieland ."  This was very successfully done in the
'70's by The Anacronic Jazzband," as listmate Gary Kiser, an
ex-member, can tell you.  I have already mentioned it when the
question was being "beaten to death on the DJML" on another occasion.
Cheers

On 08/05/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Ha Ha, Igor, see what you've done?
>
> The question has been beaten to death on the DJML, some say, but has it
> really? Then why such interest? (could it be that the make up of DJML
> members has changed from a few "in"  folks to a broader base?)
>
> Some of the old guard say that new tunes and a Bass playing 4/4/ time are
> not "Trad". Well, so what?
>
> Others say that current tunes are no good for Dixieland. They might revisit
> what Eddie Condon said about that, (and musical archeology) when he wished
> to update his offerings.
>
> Dixieland was always heavily infused with "pop" music. When did it stop
> being that way? We might ask our selves who strangled Dixieland.
>
> Certainly not the young peopled bands of Primate Fiasco, Loose Marbles,
> Jitterbug, Vipers, Sick's Pack Asylum Street Spankers, and countless others
> who now offer updated Dixieland. Or those older bands (like mine) who do
> indeed meet the kids halfway. Perhaps we need look no further than what Max
> Kaminsky said 70 years ago or so, about those who transformed jazz from rule
> breaking joyous self expression to a formulaic, elitist "art form"
> worshipping the past.
>
> "Jazz, like Dr. Frankenstein, had all unwittingly created a monster in its
> own image - the jazz addict - who, in becoming all hopped up about . . . its
> significance as an art form, very nearly snuffed the life out of it . . .
> Jazz no longer belonged to the musicians and the dancers; it was taken over
> lock stock and barrel by the fans, the addicts, the rcord collectors, the
> amateur critics, the recording companies, the promoter, the nightclub
> owners, the A & R men, the lecturers and writers. These were the people who
> now decided what was jazz and what wasn't, who dictated how it should be
> played and on what instrument, and specified who could, or could not play
> 'real' jazz."
>
> Yep, spare me the artificial restrictions thought up by folks who need to
> get on with their lives. Let me play Stevie Wonder or Beatles, or Monk tunes
> as Dixieland if I choose. Let me play Sick's Pack Tunes, as Dixieland if I
> choose. If you, as a person don't like what I play, don't listen. But
> please, get the hell out of the way and let the rest of the world decide for
> themselves.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.barbonestreet.com
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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