[Dixielandjazz] Making Love To The Audience

[Stephen G Barbone]

Oops sorry, didn't mean to send the incomplete draft. This is the  
complete
post.

Steve writes:
 >Making love is sexual overtones? Maybe so, but I always thought  
making love
 >was the basis for a lot of the Tin Pan Alley songs that OKOM bands  
play.

Jim Asks (polite snip)
What on earth does that have to do with your first statement; that you  
"make
love to your audiences"? . . .

I was a little disappointed that someone on djml didn't pick up & run  
with
my little essay on the 3 types of audience reactions.  I felt it was an
honest blurp about what a band can run into as far as audience
participation.  (Every night isn't always magic for anyone, in love or  
in
playing!)

Are you kdding? It has everything to do with my statement, and your
subsequent disapproval of it.. Simple logic.My statement about"Making
love to the audience" contains no sexual overtones unless folks choose
to read something into it of their own volition.

Can you not see the irony of your statement about sexual overtones that
apparently are offensive to you, yet you love and play all sorts of  
music
that contains much more explicit sexual overtones than my description.

Regarding you essay on audience reaction, I enjoyed it and believe
it parallels the reactions Barbone Streets gets, except that we do chat
quite a bit about the humor of jazz and jazz musicians. We try hard to
establish rapport with the audience because they are, like yours, not
really jazz fans, some hearing the music for the first time.

For example, in club dates, with young audiences, we tell them about the
time Paul Whiteman took his band to 52nd Street after a performance, to
hear some jazz and how Whiteman then treated his entire band to a  
fling at
a local whore house. Now that has sexual overtones and the audience is
always responsive to it though we old folks may find it hard to  
believe and
completely out of character for Whiteman. It is a true story.

Jazz and sex have always been linked. Sex is what helped popularize it,
if the early media reports are to be believed.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband