[Dixielandjazz] playing for young audience

[Marek Boym]

Hi Tito,
I did mpy disbelieve you, just pointed out that old videos are no proof.
But I have seen young people enthuse about our kind of music.
What I forgot to metnion when discussing both The New Orleans Function
and Swing de Gitanes was that they always give the background of the
numbers they play, whether they come from Django of Jelly Roll.
Cheers

On 19 August 2011 23:43, Tito Martino <titomartino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marek
>
> I use these videos because don´t have other more recent at youtube,
> only in DVD, but will manage that and send.
>
> And please don't forget you're talking of USA and Europe Festivals;
> I am in BRASIL, things here are a bit different of what you're used to!
>
> these Festivals are every year, you can listen to the applause for my Band
> two years ago,
> but can't see the public.   sorry but you should believe more than 50% are
> under 30.
> http://www.youtube.com/user/Jazzfestivalbrasil?blend=21&ob=5#p/u/0/ktwETPkmrv8
> mood indigo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjDB6g8VcQk&feature=player_embedded
> chinatown with wshboard
>
> and these, last month playing for the kids:  (not exactly Dixieland but the
> jazz feeling is there)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrIS6FpAM2M
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8lS3JOgx_4&NR=1      tiger rag, friends of
> mine playing,
> see the kids dancing
>
> But you can ask to Bucky Pizzareli and H. Alden who played last month in a
> couple of
> Jazz Festivals, here in Brasil, and they possibly will tell you something
> you don't know!
> I think was Alden who put some lines in this list last week about playing in
> Brasil.
>
> cheers
> Tito
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> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Tito,
>> The recordings are from 1983; there was more young audience for
>> traditional jazz then than there is now.
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>>   The Edinburgh Jazz Festival was predominantly traditional (that includes
>> swing).
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>> The Breda Festival was still labelled "Old Style Jazz Festival," and Sacto
>> was still "Dixieland Jubilee."
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>> Even the North Sea Jazz Festival still featured a fair amount of
>> traditional jazz:
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>> in 1983 I heard there Doc Cheatham, Dick Wellstood, Dick Hyman, Bob
>> Wilber, Kenny Davern
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>> (with Dick Hyman and Vic Dickenson), Waso, The Jaa-o-Matic Four, and many
>> more.
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>> But things have changed.  Breda has become "Breda Jazz Festival," North
>> Sea hardly
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>> features anything I recognize as jazz, even Sacto has dropped "Dixieland"
>> from its name.
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>> Thus, good as the performances are, they do not really indicate how much
>> you can
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>> 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
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>> younger bands, young audiences still dig OKOM when exposed thereto.
>> Cheers
>
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> Tito Martino Jazz Band
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> titomartino at gmail.com
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