[Dixielandjazz] Another place to find "young" OKOM musicians

[David M Richoux]

Graham,

The guitar player on the left of the screen in some of the videos has  
a clear glass jug on a strap around his neck. Maybe not the most  
elegant solution (with a heavy jug, anyway) but it does work.

The lines between a Skiffle, Jug and Early Blues band are very thin,  
but there is some unreasonable modern resistance to calling a jug band  
a jazz band - even if a lot of the same songs are played by all of  
them!  The Yahoo jugband list has a lot of arguments on this point in  
their early archives...

Dave RIchoux

On Jun 21, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Graham Martin wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> I was just thinking that your jug bands are what I would call a  
> skiffle
> group - from my youth, shades of Ken Colyer and Lonnie Donegan. A  
> certain
> very famous pop group from the 60s came out of a skiffle group  
> called The
> Quarrymen. No prizes for guessing who. But it does show that skiffle  
> groups
> or jug bands, whatever you want to call them, can be a good breeding  
> ground
> for any kind of music.
>
> I might be missing something but where are the jugs? I thought that  
> was an
> essential part of a jug band.
>
> Best,
>
> Grah
>
> Graham Martin
> REDLAND BAY
> Queensland, AUSTRALIA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David M Richoux [mailto:tubaman at tubatoast.com]
> Sent: Monday, 21 June 2010 12:28 PM
> To: DJML Jazz
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Another place to find "young" OKOM musicians
>
> Hi all,
>
> Been traveling so I have not kept up on some threads, but I am on a
> Jug Band list  ( jugband at yahoogroups.com ) and there are a lot of
> young musicians playing that style of OKOM these days -
>  just saw some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/howlongjugband
> and there have been a lot of other new groups forming all over North
> America and the rest of the world.  While there is some strange
> controversy among jug band musicians about what is "Jazz" and what is
> "Jugband" I certainly can see a lot of cross-over potential.
>
> So maybe some OKOM societies could hire a local jug band as an opening
> act for their monthly sessions or something - the young  followers of
> the jug might also want to hear a more traditional jazz band - who
> knows!