[Dixielandjazz] Been gone for 10 months and yet...

[Barb Jordan]

I sing periodically with a Dixieland band called the Fig Leaf Jazz Band.

 

Can someone explain the connection between figs (mouldy or otherwise) and jazz/swing/dixieland?

 

Thanks,

 

Barbara Jordan

 

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

 


 
> From: rebecca.e.thompson at verizon.net
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:19:54 -0500
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Been gone for 10 months and yet...
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: jordan_barb at hotmail.com
> 
> Some things remain the same. I have been away from DJML since last August
> and return to hearing the same arguments as before. Why debate Mouldy Fig
> vs Modernist when THIS IS THE Dixieland Jazz Mailing List and not the
> Modernist Mailing List?
> 
> Everyone has their own style to which they prefer to listen. Just leave it
> at that. The music I prefer does not reflect my respect - or lack there of
> -- for previous musicians.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Rebecca Thompson
> Flower Mound, TX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> The Mouldy Fig v Modernist arguments still appears to rage. I can't get my
> head round this at all. To my way of thinking, everything that happened in
> jazz up to about 1970 developed out of what went before. It was all the one
> music at different stages of development: Horace Silver and Thelonius Monk
> (to name just two) couldn't have done what they did without Jelly, James P
> and others having done their thing first. 
> 
> 
> 
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