[Dixielandjazz] playing for young audience

[Marek Boym]

Hello Tito,
The recordings are from 1983; there was more young audience for traditional
jazz then than there is now.  The Edinburgh Jazz Festival was predominantly
traditional (that includes swing).  The Breda Festival was still labelled
"Old Style Jazz Festival," and Sacto was still "Dixieland Jubilee."  Even
the North Sea Jazz Festival still featured a fair amount of traditional
jazz: in 1983 I heard there Doc Cheatham, Dick Wellstood, Dick Hyman, Bob
Wilber, Kenny Davern (with Dick Hyman and Vic Dickenson), Waso, The
Jaa-o-Matic Four, and many more.  But things have changed.  Breda has become
"Breda Jazz Festival," North Sea hardly features anything I recognize as
jazz, even Sacto has dropped "Dixieland" from its name.  Thus, good as the
performances are, they do not really indicate how much you can attract young
audiences today.  Newr videos are required.
But, as Steve has mentioned many times, and as I have pointed out while
writing about our younger bands, young audiences still dig OKOM when exposed
thereto.
Cheers

On 19 August 2011 19:41, Tito Martino <titomartino at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>