[Dixielandjazz] The World in a Jug

[Jim Hillesheim]

I just ordered my copy. Not "passive" when it comes to books, live music, or buying CDs, but sometimes need a reminder -- or a kick in the pants, which the author provided!

Jim Hillesheim
Lawrence, Kansas

On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

> Bob Brodsky asks if anyone on the DJML read his new book.
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> I just got my copy Bob and am mid-book. Also, I know Norm Vickers read it  as well as Ken Waltjen. Among our 600 plus or minus members, IMO, you will be fortunate if 30 buy and read read it.
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> Example: My band played a Dixieland Concert before an audience of 6 or 700 last night in Ocean City New Jersey. I think MAYBE 1 list mate was there, and MAYBE 2 members of the two local jazz societies were there. If Barbone Street had to depend upon the Jazz Society, or DJML members, we'd be playing to empty houses.
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> Like you, "knowledgeable fans" (as we like to describe ourselves) are getting old.  We "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (except for certain musicians like me who at 76 years old will drive 260 miles round trip at night to make a well paying gig) and getting very passive about "new books" or "live music." For the most part, we are no longer adventurous and stay within our own little circle of friends and gigs by our local jazz societies. Go to hear music in a club, or on the outside? Hear a new band? Read a new book? Nah, there are very few (Marek Boym is one) who venture outside their cocoons to hear live music.
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> The answer to enlarging the audience, as we see it, is to target those regular folks, young and old, who think jazz is limited to elevator music and what they hear on the radio. When you get them to read your book, or we get them to a concert, the repeating phrase we hear when they come up after their experience is" Wow, I didn't think I liked jazz, but what you are playing is wonderful."
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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