[Dixielandjazz] 15 year old Nikki Yanofsky

[pj.ladd]

 Do I have a right to know where you're coming from?>>

Hi Ric,

Not sure I understand what you mean by `coming from`. No doubt as someone to 
whom Facebook and Twitter and such are merely words this marks me down as a 
technical and computer  illiterate  and probably should not be let out on my 
own, and I wouldn`t argue with that.

If you mean ` how do I back up my criticism` I can only say that I am eighty 
and I have been listening to music and playing it, at a very amateur level, 
ever since I started my first band at the age of eighteen or thereabouts (we 
were the Silver Stars and we were awful). Consequently I feel entitled,  if 
I don`t like a performer, to say so.

I think the girl is extremely talented and, as I said in my first post, if 
she is around in 15 years she will be tremendous. At the moment she is, I 
think, too sophisticated for her own good. Her performance is mechanical 
with every trick of stage craft in the book at her disposal. I feel that she 
does not come over as having learned this stuff from experience but more 
that she has been tutored . Hold the mike like this, look left, flounce your 
skirt, skip across to stage left etc.,. To me it looks like as rehearsd 
routine and no doubt it is, but the point is that it should NOT  look 
rehearsed.
A trumpeter may play the same break every night but it must LOOK as if he is 
improvising. If it doesn`t it loses the magic.

Sorry if you don`t agree, but there it is. Give  me Peggy Lee any time.

Cheers

Pat