[Dixielandjazz] obscure - differing opinioin

[Ric Giorgi]

Ouch, this is one of the few times I find myself not completely agreeing
with you Steve but .........

While I agree that the new young audience for OKOM has fresh ears for most
of the mainstream 20th c. standards we play, I find audiences love to
discover new songs so I throw in an "obscure" one, maybe once a night, to
reward the few who have heard most of the standards. 

I think doing this also helps differentiate the band from other OKOM groups.
When I started playing again 30 years ago nobody had heard "100 Years From
Today" in many many years. It's pretty much become one of those standards
now. 

"As Time Goes By" didn't make it the first time around either and I suspect
there are others that fit this category.

Cheers,

Ric Giorgi
Rainbow Gardens Music

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Jim Kashishian
Sent: December 5, 2009 7:10 AM
To: Ric Giorgi
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] obscure

Steve wrote:
>OKOM is obscure enough vis a vis "music" and I have no desire to make 
>it
more obscure by searching out tunes which didn't make it the first time
around.


I've found myself in the same position many times. When I think an obscure
song might work, I then remember all the well-known tunes we still don't do!
"So many, so little time" sort of thing.

Depends, I suppose, in a band's audience, also.  We play to the "unwashed
masses", so obscure would really be obscure!

That doesn't mean we don't work out some pretty clever head arrangements to
make the well-knowns more interesting.  But, mostly...when we've tried an
obscure tune, we've collectively decided to leave it in obscurity after one
or two tries.  Often seems that there is a reason it was there in the first
place!

Jim 


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