[Dixielandjazz] obscure?

[ricgiorgi at sympatico.ca]

Right on - or as Satchmo put it, 
' If it get off the ground, it don't matter what tune you playin'
- If it don't get off the ground, it don't matter what tune you playin' '
> From: jim at kashprod.com
> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:48:38 +0100
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] obscure?
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: ricgiorgi at sympatico.ca
> 
> Thinking about the reference to "obscure tunes", I suddenly realized that
> what one band might call obscure, another band might refer to as well-known.
> I'm sure that if one were to compare our set lists with someone else's, you
> might find we play some unusual, if not obscure stuff.  That is probably
> because we stray often into the swing & big band arena.  So, although we do
> Muscrat Ramble, Doctor Jazz, etc., we also do Moonglow, Honeysuckle Rose,
> Blue & Sentimental, Doxy, Paper Moon, Out of Nowhere, etc.  None of those
> are particularly obscure, but would not normally be in the U.S. Dixieland
> list.
>  
> Jim "if it swings, it works" Kash
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