[Dixielandjazz] Loose Marbles

[Stephen G Barbone]

On May 29, 2010, at 3:00 PM, dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com  
wrote:

> Dave Richoux  tubaman at tubatoast.com wrote (about Loose Marbles)
>
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> Listening to them right now at Sac Jazz - some great old tunes  
> played just right! I don't think anybody in the group is over 30,  
> but they have the collective soul of a timeless New Orleans Jazz band.

You tell em Dave. For others who want to hear/see them go to:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bCffoeZzVEg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R6sYZBMISFg&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nyr7LDiprjA&feature=related


Now, do folks still doubt this music is viable among the young? OK, go  
to:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ICiOA-iFZk&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GHQ1UhWpl7I

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5aSSUJDLBLI&feature=related


In other words, you folks who think this music will die, should get  
out more. Go where the kids are instead of watching OKOM festivals who  
don't adapt slowly die. Note well that Sacramento has the Loose  
Marbles there this weekend. Thank Bob Ringwald for that.

Still not convinced? OK, for some outside the box OKOM thinking go to:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVXENoTdNg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZ7RKbiUB0

http://www.primatefiasco.com/music.html


Want more trad? OK, then hear Cangelosi Cards at:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_MCxA8szM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBfCPMK81U&feature=related

This is the band that Ed Polcer busks around NYC in the subway, or at  
Washington Sq Park there. He'll tell you he makes more per hour doing  
that then he does at his Old Folks gigs in The Big Apple.

Yes, OKOM festivals may die. Nothing lasts forever and those of us who  
played at, or went to OKOM festivals have an average age of dead. But,  
for those of us old folks who still get to nightclubs or street  
festivals and see these young bands are quite optimistic about the  
state of the genre. How many of the old guard knew about Loose  
Marbles? Those of us on the DJML should all know, as they have been  
the subject of numerous posts for about 5 years now.

And those like my band which plays 100 gigs a year in venues like  
these see the enthusiasm with which the music is accepted by audiences  
of all ages . . . IF IT IS PRESENTED WITH THAT AUDIENCE IN MIND.   
We're cutting back from 160+  gigs a year not because the music is  
dead, but because we are to damn old to play more than twice a week on  
average. And we welcome the young OKOM bands that are springing up in  
our area. Instead of lamenting the old folks perception that this  
music is dying, get out on the scene and hear what the young bands are  
doing with it.

Go hear the kids, like Jonathan Russell, or Aaron Irwin or Drew  
Nugent, or the bands above, or all of the rest out there who making  
sure OKOM lives. We are dying off, not the music. THINK YOUNG.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband