[Dixielandjazz] Happy New Year

[Marek Boym]

Hello Ginny,
I had sent my first reply before watching the video.
Having watched it, I find expalining the phenomenon easy:

The Breda Jazz Festival is mostly free and outdoors.  Thus, people who
just pass the Grotte Markt (the Great Market), with no intention to
listen to jazz, are exposed to various styles of OKOM (and, in the
recent years, other kinds of music as well).  No wonder there are
young audiences, or rather - young people in the audience.  And it
must rub off on some.  I saw several generations there, enjoying jazz
together: great-grand mothers and fathers, grand-mothers and fathers,
parents and children, often toddlers.  It also proves that all God's
chillun got rhythm - until we spoil them.  You can see lots of little
kids dancing to the music and enjoying themselves.
And, if you have young audiences, you get young musicians; perhaps not
as many as one could wish, but at least some.
Anyway, it is festivals such as Breda (or Enkhuizen, but that one is
much smaller) that ensure the future of OKOM in Europe, not festivals
where one has to pay great amount of money to get in.
Cheers

On 02/01/2010, Gluetje1 at aol.com <Gluetje1 at aol.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Bert!  What I see in the great clip you sent is  primarily young
> musicians entertaining a young audience.  I will assume  there were some
> mentors somewhere.  What a dream I have; i.e., old timers  such as follow this
> list along with me will make it their personal  responsibility to figure out
> how they can personally turn one young person onto  OKUM.  Because I think
> we're mostly clueless as to how to create that  phenomenon.
>
> Yes, yes, I know some of you are succeeding at just that.  So if  you're in
> the choir, I'm not preaching to you.  But if you're doing  nothing, I hope
> I pricked not your conscience, but your motivation.  It is  an only slightly
> used year at this point, plenty of time to get underway.
>
> Ginny
>
>
> In a message dated 1/2/2010 11:20:19 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> dixieorkest at hotmail.com writes:
>
> To start  the year good I'll give a link from a video from the Breda Jazz
> festival where  the bass saxophone gets a lot of  attention.........
>
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtm3i5XixV8
>
>
>
> Kind  regards,
>
>
>
> Bert  Brandsma
>
>
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