[Dixielandjazz] JAZZ WAX ARTICLE - The death trap of early jazz.

[Marek Boym]

How true!  "Jazz schools" only teach modern, starting much after Parker.

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>:A couple of weeks we played as soloist with a large wind orchestra.
> I allready gave the youtube link :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR7Vbltj0U
> After the concert the Dixieland Crackerjacks played the after party, a dance attended by esp. the younger people of the orchestra : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRyiFxdzNl0
> They were very enthousiastic and bought a lot of CDs.In fact after the dance they had their own late night after party and insisted that the DJ there played our CD, since they wanted to hear the music again.
> I felt very happy when I heard that. Not everything is hopeless for our music.


Also - how true!
Here in Israel we have at least two groups that often play for young
audiences: Swing de Gitanes and New Orleans Function.
The latter, especially, has enthusiastic young followers, and often
plays for dancers.  And often, after the band is done, DJs continue
playing our kind of music, and kids go on dancing till the wee hours.

Swing de Gitanes may play less for dancing, but it does.  I once
attended their "Swing de Belleville" party at a night club (named
after the French cartoon "Triplets de Belleville", which was shown on
the screen through most of the evening, albeit without sound).  Young
people were dancing like crazy, both with the band and with the
intermission records (Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Lunceford,
Armstrong).  And again, they continued dancing long after the band
ended its performance.  I have hardly heard them without many young
people in the audience, and even at a concert couples danced in the
isles.
So - there is hope, but bands must go where young people are
(something Steve has been preaching at least since my joining the
list, probably much longer; and, unlike the said Israeli bands, his
band is not young).
Cheers