[Dixielandjazz] Hard To Believe

[Barb Jordan]

Well said Dave! I guess I include myself as one of the "younger" members of the list, so thanks for your thoughts as mine are not too far off from yours.

 

Barbara Jordan

 

Burlington, Ontario Canada.

 

P.S. Had a good time singing with The 
Fig Leaf Jazz Band in Barrie Ontario last Sunday. 

 

 


 
> From: tubaman at tubatoast.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:03:22 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Hard To Believe
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: jordan_barb at hotmail.com
> 
> Sorry Bob, and this may be kind of OT for a lot of you,
> 
> 
> As one of the "younger" members of this list I have to disagree with 
> your comments. I grew up in the Rock and Roll generation and was 
> exposed to Elvis, The Beatles, The Coasters, The Beach Boys, James 
> Brown, and hundreds of other major and minor "Rock" artists from the 
> mid 1950s to the early 1970s. I also knew about Swing, Jazz and 
> popular music from earlier decades, but "Rock and Roll" is what I 
> heard most of the time on the radio.
> 
> I thought the halftime show was somewhat interesting because the 
> lyrics of "The Who" songs were so anti-corporate and anti-big 
> government that they never should have been "approved" for such an 
> event. Maybe we have somehow all forgotten the power of music to make 
> changes in society, maybe we have been overwhelmed by the 
> corporations, but I always have hope for the musicians who keep on 
> playing (even if they seem to be bought out by the Superbowl Masters, 
> as it were.)
> 
> maybe I am just falling back to those Hippy-Trippy days of the 1960s 
> when "the kids where all right," but for me, that band was still 
> saying a lot - even in the belly of the beast. Yes, I am sure they 
> made a lot of money doing this, but that is the way it is. Now.
> 
> So, what does this have to do with OKOM? I am not quite sure. Rock 
> music has direct roots to early jazz and blues, most of the UK bands 
> of the 1960s were certainly inspired by the Trad Revival of the 1950s 
> - so where is the line drawn? What is Jazz, What is Rock? When a band 
> that has been popular for almost 50 years plays for the Superbowl, 
> what is "Traditional Music?"
> 
> I don't really need a lot of answers to these vague questions - but 
> it probably has something to do with how what is now considered "Old- 
> Time Music" is understood by most of the younger generations...
> 
> Dave Richoux
> 
> On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
> 
> > I was listening to the game on the radio. At half time, the 
> > announcer kept bragging about what a great show the Who was putting 
> > on. They were so loud, you could hardly hear him.
> >
> > Things have really sunk to a new low...
> >
> > --Bob Ringwald
> >
> >
> >
> > --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
> > rsr at ringwald.com
> > Fulton Street Jazz Band
> > 916/806-9551
> >
> > Check out our latest recording at www.ringwald.com/recordings.htm
> >
> > "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the 
> > government
> > from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking 
> > care of them."
> > --Thomas Jefferson
> >
> 
> 
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