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

[Harry Callaghan]

Steve:

So now I'm Al?  You must have heard me sing "Brother Can You Spare a Dime"

But I do applaud you for all your percentage figures adding up to 100%.

Harry

On 4/11/10, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> > 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
>
>
>
>
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