[Dixielandjazz] Volume and fire

[Ric Giorgi]

Chris Tyle makes an important point supported by letters written to
families and friends by musicians in the 20's or 30's who say
something to the effect that they played or heard a band 'playing
really hot but you could still hear the shuffling of the dancers'
feet'. I'll try to find exact co-ordinates on these or maybe someone
on the list can reference this faster than I can.

Ricardo Giorgi
Rainbow Gardens Music
Toronto ON
rgmusic at sympatico.ca
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Volume and fire

Steve B. has made some excellent points in his posts over the last
few
days. But I must disagree with his point about volume.

Loud doesn't equal fire. Simply because the Watters band and
Condon's band
played with volume didn't make their performances exciting, per se.
It was
the spirit in the musicians playing that made their performances
hot.
Their are many recorded examples of bands playing hot but not
blasting
(as, IMO, the Watters band did). Jelly's "Black Bottom Stomp" is a
perfect
example of a hot performance played at a moderate volume. (I would
suggestion mezzoforte, perhaps forte).

Regards,
Chris Tyle


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