[Dixielandjazz] Oh Yeah Day - playing for young audience

[Tito Martino]

Hi Tamás

well, I have to agree with you, something in the style of the Change the
World Song video needs heavy sponsoring.  But it can be made differently !
For example, 10 o 12 short clips (with seconds each)  of concerts/shows of
different Bands playing everywhere in
the world, all playing the same tune (The Saints?) and all Band ending the
tune
 with the "ta tata taaaa ta rara laaaaaa  oh yeaaaaaah!".  The individual
videos can be sent to a central editing facility and edited together with a
bit of fantasy and creativity, to give homogeneity.     Well....  it's
always possible to dream....

As for playing for young audiences: I did last year 2 or 3 concerts for free
in school theatres, for kids with 10 to 15 years old. It's nice but don't
believe it works more than for being a curiosity to the kids.     Now, in a
different take, I play every thursday 12:30 do 13:30 at  Theatre inside a
big book store in mid-town, with free admission, always 180/200 people
standing to applaud and asking for autographs;  I'm incentivating school
teachers to bring their classes to the Show, and it's working very well,
because the kids who come are willing to see the show.
I also give a flyer, but text is not directed to kids as you do (good idea).

On other front, I proposed and in november will stage a free Concert to
pupils and teachers inside a very respected and big School of Journalism.

We have to educate the midia !

As for a  Course in Traditional Jazz, I'm looking forward to know yours,
please let me know;  but I guess you know the excelent work of our (ex?)
listmate John P. Birchall

http://www.themeister.co.uk/dixie/dixieland_jazz.htm

but it's not useful for me to help kids, as it is witten in English and the
kids around here are not learning foreign languages at school... it's a
shame.
Let's do whatever possible whenever possible.

Keep on swinging, oh yeah !

Tito
in São Paulo, Brasil



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2011/8/17 Ittzés Tamás <bohem at fibermail.hu>

> Hi everyone, again,****
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> Steve’s suggestion could be good but in the case of the Change Song, there
> was a lot of money in the background. Provided by a sponsor, a record
> company, if I’m not mistaken. In order to make it really professional and
> sound good, you need to hire a sound guy who travels all around and makes it
> work like they did in the Change Song. If you do it just with different set
> ups, different tools, recording equipments over internet, etc., it’s not
> gonna work. It will but the quality will be NOT exceptional but probably
> poor. And it ruins the whole thing. Not to mention than to do something as
> second (unless you copy something from another business segment) always puts
> you behind something. I’m not for it. If Bill Gates was my neighbour or my
> best friend, I’d might say differently but if we have to build this up from
> the ground with no money in it at the beginning, it could ruin’ it, I think.
> I am putting some money into it as we recorded our concert and we’ll make up
> a shorter and a longer video of the event plus we’ll edit a demonstration
> video of the OYD venues when I get the films from all the participating
> bands. Then I’ll upload it to YouTube.****
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> As for playing for young audiences: I have mentioned several times that we
> have been doing informative jazz concerts in schools for a long time. Last
> year we did around 40 such concerts, this year only 20-25 but next year
> again around 50. To keep kids attention for longer than just a concert I had
> come up with an idea after years of wasting time with just losing them
> although they were enthusiastic about the style at the concert but most of
> them have never heard about jazz or my band afterwards. Now we give out a
> flyer to EVERY kid in the audience. On one side there are some basic jazz
> vocabulary (like and encyclopaedia) so they know how to spell Ragtime and
> Jazz etc. and there is written explanation what they mean. Simple and short.
> And a photo of Armstrong, too. On the other side there is some info about
> our free internet JazzSchool where they can learn more about the genre if
> they like the concert. The link for the JazzSchool is on the flyer, of
> course. I have written a JazzSchool which is a 12-part series and kids can
> subscribe to it by email then they get the link of the parts (lessons)
> weekly. It gives them basic information about styles and players with 3-5
> videos per “lesson”. When they are finished they are urged to continue and
> subscribe to the next series which is called JazzHighSchool and it is an
> 8-part series and each member of my band contributed with one part about
> their instrument: we write a little about the history and role of the
> instruments and introduce some of its greatest players. Text is
> “kid-friendly” and videos are interesting and not long. I converted all
> videos and uploaded them to our server so if any of them disappears from
> YouTube it would not ruin our series. We plan to do a JazzUniversity with
> videos, it’s gonna be done some time later. Now I have enough to do.****
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> Unfortunately the above school is available only in Hungarian but I am
> thinking to translate it into English but, again, I need plenty of time to
> do it.****
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> What I am trying to do but it is difficult and is not working well yet but
> I don’t give up: we offer a school concert for free or for very little money
> besides an evening concert. But organizers in cultural houses (which are
> hosting most evening concerts in our case) are not very willing to do the
> extra work to contact schools. I’m working on it and let you know if I come
> up with something that works.****
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> By the way, our audience in Hungary is way much younger than yours in the
> States and Western Europe and probably elsewhere. Young people love it and
> not only swing dancers do.****
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> Best regards,****
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> Tamas****
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> *From:* Tito Martino [mailto:titomartino at gmail.com]
> Dear Steve
>
> 1. great idea the "World Oh,Yeah! Song" on youtube.
> Let's find a proper song, some old public domain Buddy Bolden tune,
>  with renewed lyrics including Oh, Yeah! of course.
>
> 2.  that's the key, that's the cue:
> PLAYING FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
> that should, that must be our goal.
>
> It's your long term "mantra" and you advocate that,
> since many years here in this forum.
>
> keep on swinging, oh, yeah !
>
> Tito
>
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