[Dixielandjazz] Standards

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

One means of finding out what the post-1960 "standards" are is to get play
lists from major local top-40 booking agencies. Probably the most useful
category is "Oldies" or "contemporary variety" bands. The lists will be
part of the promo info of individual bands.

--Sheik

> This isn't hard to believe at all.  People today have huge numbers of
> choices when it comes to music and the technology to absolutely ignore
> many
> parts of the musical spectrum.
>
> When I was young there were about three or four radio stations that had
> pop
> music.  There wasn't just a whole lot of other choices.  You could do big
> band, jazz, rock or symphonic.
>
> Today with TV, satellite radio, AF, FM, Ipods and the internet the choices
> are almost infinite.  Then add in all the variations of all the different
> kinds of music that are out there.  Rock for example has fragmented into
> dozens of sub styles.
>
> It becomes sensory overload.
>
> It's no wonder that people are becoming more narrow rather than broader in
> their listening habits.
>
> When I first started playing, a knowledge of several hundred "standard"
> tunes was a must.  It was required that you know them well enough so that
> you could play through the tune and take a jazz chorus on it.  Without
> that
> you weren't pro grade and didn't get hired.  Today I haven't a clue as to
> what a standard tune is.
>
> This struck me several years ago when I was playing with a group of really
> good musicians.  The other four horn players were all USAF musicians.  You
> can't get much more pro than that.  Someone requested the Girl From
> Ipanema.
> The leader (drummer) kicked it off and the Rhythm section and I did it.
> One knew the head but not the bridge the rest didn't know it at all.
> Larry
> StL
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pj.ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
> To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:28 AM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Standards
>
>
>> Hi All,
>> I have been struck by a terrible thought. Perhaps  the reason for
>> falling
>> audience numbers for OKOM is that `THEY DON`T KNOW THE TUNES`
>>
>> This seems incomprehensible to me but I was playing piano at a party the
>> other night and was asked to play something they could sing. I was under
>> the impression that I had been. I was using    THE BUSKER FAKE BOOK.
>> 1001
>> ALL TIME HIT SONGS.
>>
>> A few guests went through the book saying `Don`t know that......Dont
>> know
>> that` About the only ones they knew were Paperback Writer, Dancing Queen
>> and Peggy Sue and they didn`t want to sing them because they were `old`.
>> Exactly like you? Nah, For all we know? Nah  Fly me to the moon? Nah
>> Jambalayah? Nah!
>> This wasnt a gathering of kids. The local vicar and his wife, one
>> retired
>> couple, two couple son the verge of retirement and so on.They weren`t
>> non
>> musicians. One had a good voice and two beside myself played piano.
>>
>> I am almost eighty and ,obviously wrongly, I looked on these people as
>> my
>> `contemporaries
>>
>> I thought the `generation gap` was between me and teenagers. No it
>> aint.!
>>
>> M
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