[Dixielandjazz] How much trad jazz do you listen to?

[Stephen G Barbone]

> Al  meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes: (polite snip)
>
>    I'm curious about one thing.   Here's the background....
>
>    I play Dixieland, and I love to play  it.  But when it comes to
> listening to music, I listen  to a little bit of everything --  
> except for heavy
> classical, opera, hip-hop, and  hard rock.  I spend perhaps 10% of my
> music-listening time with traditional  jazz.
>
>    Tonight, for example, I've been  downloading audio tracks from  
> YouTube
> videos of WW II German military music --  the music that made it so  
> easy to
> get the German people to march off to war in  times past.  It's deeply
> stirring music, and more heavily militaristic than  Sousa's fine  
> marches. I
> probably spend less than 5% of my listening time with  this music .
>
>    Anyway, here is the simple question I  would like to pose to you  
> good
> people:
>
>    When you listen to music, about what  percent of the time is that  
> music
> traditional jazz?
>
>    If you will reply to the group, I'll  keep tabs on the answers and
> report to the list on the  results.
>
>    I'm curious about  this....
>                                            Many thanks,   Al

Dear Al:

I listen about 3% of the time to trad jazz. Maybe less. The rest of my  
listening time is roughly 60% to modern jazz, 35 % to classical music  
and 2 % all other music.

Not big on German March music. <grin>

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband