[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 65, Issue 22

[Marek Boym]

Gee, Steve, you may be right, but it takes a masochist to listen to
what passes for "music" these days.
Having said that, I must add that on today's news there was an item of
a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, a
person involved in the project of "re-enacting" the "big bang," who is
also a a composer and a singer.  While his songs sounded awful to me
(and my jazz-hating wife), they all had a clear melody, so that they
could be "jazzed on," in the words of Wilbur de Paris.

On 15/05/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com> wrote (polite snip)
> >
> > My original question was:
> >
> > "What songs out in the last 10 years work in the style of Dixieland or
> > OKOM?"  snip to . . .
> >
> >
> > So, asking about what songs have come out in the past 10 years that can be
> > played in an OKOM style, (I should have added successfully) , Steve
> answers
> > by telling us that  the hardest age group to please is the 50-60 year
> olds.
> >
> > This has nothing to do with my question.  So, skip down past all of the
> > stuff that has been beat to death on DJML to the list he gives which I
> > presume have come out in the past 10 years?
> >
>
>
> Excuse me? My but you are picky picky today Bob.
>
> Seems to me I gave you as the answer to your question the following at the
> beginning of my post:
>
> > Suggestions for young audience songs:
> >
> > 1) Written Recently: (Young kids love these) You can find more simply  by
> > listening to the music that the
> >    YOUNG BANDS are playing. Vocals are important! This may take  some
> > digging because many of us are
> >    not wired into the young scene. Get out and go clubbing with  them.
> > For example:
> >
> >  "Ode To Bitches",  "Teeth",  "Bury Me In The Pasture", Don't Go  Lookin
> > For Lonesome"  By Sick's Pack
> >  http://www.myspace.com/wreckcreationmusic
> >
>
> You presume correctly that these songs have been written within the last 10
> year framework that you specify. Had you been listening to what is going
> around you on the young music scene today, instead of constantly bitching
> about it, you would realize that there are many such songs available to be
> SUCCESSFULLY adapted by Dixieland Bands.
> All you have to do is listen to them, and since I've posted where you can
> hear them before, I'm not going to beat it to death by repeating.
>
> And as to the following being "beaten to death:
>
> > Bob Ringwald asked about recent songs that can be adapted to  Dixieland.
> > Here are some ideas about songs that will appeal to younger  audiences.
> > The most difficult audience to please IMO is the 50-60 year  olds which is
> > why Beetles, Hello Dolly, Elvis, songs should be added  to this mix. And
> > perhaps "Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog", which we played a  few time to that
> > audience at private parties and they loved it.
> >
>
> I'm sorry you feel it has no relevance to YOUR question. But then, that is
> precisely the problem with the old farts who play Dixieland and then bitch
> because they have no audience.  The cure to the no audience problem is clear
> and easily implemented. That it is not implemented is, and in fact is
> derided, only serves to perpetuate the problem.  In that regard, I'm sorry
> you don't have the patience you get over a two sentence introduction (the
> above paragraph) to THE SPECIFIC ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.barbonestreet.com
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
>
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