[Dixielandjazz] Used to be about mouldy fig newtons

Don Robertson jdrobertson at att.net
Mon Apr 12 08:57:06 PDT 2010


I'd say about 80% Trad Jazz.  The rest is '30's and '40's big Band, 
Early Country & Western/Folk, Bluegrass/Fiddle music, vocalists 
(Sinatra, Keeley Smith, --lately Barbara Rosine).  Much of my listening 
is on Radio OKOM which is largely trad or classic jazz.

Don Robertson

On 4/10/2010 8:02 PM, W1AB at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/10/2010 10:39:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes:
>
> However, at my age and in my present condition, I believe the supple  young
> lady might kill me the first night so, I'm afraid I would have  to  settle
> for the piano tuner...........as long as his name wasn't Opporknockity  (I
> know everyone's probably heard that shaggy dog  story)
>
>
>      I seem to have joined the right club  ... of my peers.  Speaking of
> peers ... no, we  better not get into that.
>
>      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....
>
>      Of course, if this questions has been  addressed previously, just tell
> me what the consensus was.
>
>                                                      Many thanks,   Al
> _______________________________________________
> To unsubscribe or change your e-mail preferences for the Dixieland Jazz Mailing list, or to find the online archives, please visit:
>
> http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz
>
>
>
> Dixielandjazz mailing list
> Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>
>    


More information about the Dixielandjazz mailing list