[Dixielandjazz] playing for young audience
Larry Walton Entertainment
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Fri Aug 19 12:09:57 PDT 2011
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen G Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>; "Jim Kashishian"
<jim at kashprod.com>; "Tito Martino" <titomartino at gmail.com>; "DJML"
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<help at bohemragtime.com>; <Jim at jimivy.com>; "Skonberg Bria"
<briaskonberg at hotmail.com>; "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>;
"Ittzés Tamás" <bohem at fibermail.hu>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] playing for young audience
> Dear Robert:
>
> Please continue as long as you like about this subject. Note that I have
> removed Bob Ringwald from the addressees. He may not be interested in
> this subject matter and certainly has heard it all before since it has
> been discussed on the DJML for decades. However, I and perhaps some
> others am vitally interested in sharing opinions about audiences with
> people who have not heard it all before.
>
> It's kind of like "Old Folks" in general. They have heard it all before
> and so do not wish to discuss it, and/or listen to certain types of jazz.
> Band leaders like Tito Martino and me (and others) are always glad to
> share opinions. And we realize that the DJML is a living and dying chat
> list. Of the 600 or so members, the new folks on the list who have
> replaced those who have died off, certainly have not heard all these
> discussion points before. IMO, those new members should neither be
> ignored, nor dismissed with "we've heard all that before". Basically
> because some of us old boys on the DJML have heard most of the subjects
> discussed on it before. As for me, soon to be 78, so what?
>
> One thing for sure, the older audience is dying off. Who else but younger
> folks will be around to listen and dance to the music? I personally enjoy
> sharing opinions with you and urge you to continue as you see fit since I
> believe that your opinions are valuable.
>
> I also urge you to join the DJML. No doubt every discussion on it will
> not be of interest to you and so I urge you to do what I do. Get it in
> digest form and just skip by those discussions that are of no interest.
> Takes me only 15 minutes or so to go through each digest and there are
> usually 2 or less digests per day.
>
> BTW, we routinely play Original Dixieland One Step for young dancers and
> that tune was recorded by the ODJB in 1917 and is probably about 100
> years old. They LOVE it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Robert Duis wrote:
>
>> Some (maybe most) members in this list do not like me to speak about
>> this subject. So I will stop.
>>
>> Last thought: Playing to youngsters is different of interest youngsters
>> of music older than 20 years at a maximum.
>>
>> robert duis.
>>
>>
>> Op 19-aug-2011, om 18:41 heeft Tito Martino het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Hi Steve
>>>
>>> oh, my! you've been extremely restrained and modest in that mail!
>>> You're actually a champion of living Jazz, oposed to dead Jazz and a
>>> well succeded leader of a band working 150+ gigs yearly !
>>> And with higher fees than any other band around there !
>>>
>>> So your words are to be taken very seriously, YOU are clearly REALISTIC
>>> in your OPTIMISM.
>>>
>>> I try to do the same around here, in a much lesses scale.
>>>
>>> That's why I can't agree with our listmate Robert Duis.
>>>
>>> Dear Duis
>>>
>>> I saw your Band playing in youtube, like very much, there
>>> is the old arranged big-band style;
>>>
>>>
>>> and here you can see my Band
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_mAlG8k9c Since my Best Gal
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAPnDhnLjs&feature=related C Jam
>>> Blues
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnX6O1_tEY Bourbon St. Parade
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxmbmbVStjc Rose Room
>>>
>>> I wish you remark the YOUNG people in the audience and see their
>>> reactions especially to CJam Bues.
>>>
>>> These clips are a little old but my Band is basically the same today
>>> and we keep playing to young audiences!
>>>
>>> You can see the difference between the kind of Jazz you play and the
>>> kind of Jazz I play
>>> and that it reaches to the youngs.
>>>
>>> keep on swinging!
>>>
>>> Tito Martino
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Stephen G Barbone
>>> <barbonestreet at earthlink.net
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Robert Duis wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear "ALL"...........
>>>>
>>>> Regarding the Interesting discussion about the OH
>>>> YEAH DAY:
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> My name is robert duis (74) and fanatic amateur
>>>> traditional jazz performer as the leader of the
>>>> www.limehouse-jazzband.nl
>>>>
>>>> I think an "Oh Yeah Day" (Tamas ' idea) is "better"
>>>> than a Louis Armstrong or a Duke Ellington or a Bix Beiderbecke
>>>> Day....
>>>> ................when trying to interest younger
>>>> people to the Traditional Jazz but I am a realist and I am a pessimist
>>>> in this respect:
>>>>
>>>> Better put energy and activities in trying to
>>>> enlarge the 60+ market for OUR music than thinking to reach a younger
>>>> 30- market. NO CHANCE!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Mozart / Beethoven / Chopin / Louis Armstrong and
>>>> even The Beatles are "stations" that do NOT come back..............
>>>>
>>>> Invite your neighbour of 60+ instead of her / his
>>>> son of 30- for your concert. Thinking of 20 / 15 / 10 year young
>>>> girls and boys is not more than STUPID!
>>>>
>>>> The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam has 2.000 seats.
>>>> Give 2.000 tickets free of charge to young people for a concert of the
>>>> very best Traditional JAZZERS in the world
>>>> and the Theatre stays empty or will be full of the
>>>> parents and the grandparents of these kids who gave their tickets away
>>>> and .......... do not be disappointed and/or angry about that.
>>>>
>>>> Nobody stops the "Wonderful World of Louis!"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Robert & others:
>>>
>>> I respectfully disagree and have posted many examples over the past 10
>>> years of how to play for YOUNG people. By simply playing at venues
>>> where they are, drinking, dancing and having a good time. Not to
>>> belabor the point, see the below jpgs.,etc. My band does these kinds of
>>> gigs MANY times a year and this explains why we have so many gigs in
>>> comparison to bands that only court old folks. Young people venues is
>>> where the action is. Been like that ever since the ODJB hit Chicago and
>>> NYC circa 1917. Most old folks don't go out any more.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steve Barbone
>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Tito Martino Jazz Band
>>> www.titomartinojazzband.com.br
>>> titomartino at gmail.com
>>>
>>
>
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