[Dixielandjazz] Tunes on a CD (was Back to Asylum Street Spankers)

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Hi Marek, Bill, and List,
I find my vocabulary leaves me when I try to write about music.  Good  
thing I never had aspirations to be a critic.  I'll let music speak for  itself 
with two YouTubes.
 
Here's an Asylum Street Spankers video that I have actually watched  more 
than once, but have no desire to play multiple times per CD.  (The  longer 
you listen to this one, the better the music gets.)  How long since  you've 
seen a crowd respond like that to a concert you attended?  Oh, and  the 
monkeys that Wammo spanks and then shoots out into the audience during  their 
shows -- my husband caught one for me -- is that sweet or?  Anyhow,  it hangs 
from my rear view mirror in the perfect Redneck location.
 >_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8) <
 
And a second video of a group whose tunes I do like to listen to multiple  
times on CD, the Original Wildcat Jass Band: 
>_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJ-nntVi4A_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJ-nntVi4A) <
 
Meanwhile, I did watch the video of Asylum Street's "Scrotum Song".   Ahhh, 
Jada re-parodied.  Now dare I ask how many "daring" verses of that  this 
list could submit?
 
Ginny
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/12/2010 12:49:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
marekboym at gmail.com writes:

Hello,
You both seem to be siplifying the issue.
What makes a  good record?
In 1983, a firend brought me the Polish Old Timrs' Lp from  Edinburgh.
I was disappointed - they sounded like just another  run-of-the-mill
traditional group.  But she was adamant as to their  ecxellence and,
luckily, had tapes made at their performances to prove  it!  Some of
the numbers were identical, yet on the lo-fi live  recording they came
to life, while on the LP they wer bland.  I have  since acquired all
their subsequent LPs. and find them all extremely good,  the live
recordings at a German festival being slightly less  so.

Anotehr example is a CD which, on paper, looks great: a stellar  lineup
(names that would make me run to the check out and pay before  the
record is snatched away), goo arrangers, a set of good tunes, some  -
such as Cherokee, Limehouse Blues, etc., and the music itself,  though
not played badly, sounds lifeless.

Hence, I don't be;ieve  it's the tunes, but the moment!  It's just that
records which are not  so good should not be circulated, as was the
practice in the old days, when  they recorded multiple "takes" untill
one seemed  satisfactory.

Cheers

On 12/04/2010, Bill Haesler  <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote [in  part]:
> > I've also noticed that even in my favorite Dixieland  genre, what may
> > delight me seen and heard live, does not  necessarily mean I will want 
to listen
> > to it multiple times on  CD...........  Yet, there are ensembles who 
manage to record tunes that I  want to
> > listen to again and again.
>
> Dear  Ginny,
> Well put and an interesting topic.
> One, some of us here  in Sydney, Oz have been discussing for several 
months.
> What tunes from  a working band's repertoire should be included on its 
new CD?
> How do  our DJML groups/artists, with numerous issued CDs, select the 
'best' titles  for each recording?
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
>
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