[Dixielandjazz] Sacramento Festival

[Marek Boym]

Oh, the difference in perception!
After all this time on the list, I did not realize that to Americans
"trad" meant banjo and tuba bands!  To me, "trad" was British trad,
which often sounded like banjo with instrumentsl accompaniment.  Very
few British bands used brass bass; it has mostly been banjo and string
bass.  Of course, there are exceptions, but that seems to be the rule.
 To say the truth (perish the thought), I did not know "trad" was used
in the States at all!

Tubas are strong in France, but mano of the French bands are very
different from the American two-beat bands.

For me, any traditional band will do if it is good, but I prefer
string basses and guitars to tubas and banjos.  And I love swing.

But my tastes are less catholic than Bob's - I don't like Brubeck, and
have my doubts as to whether the music he played even in theearly days
was jazz.  And I AM NOT prepared do discuss it - it would be
pointless.

Cheers

> Without reading Jim's email again, I know that what he is referring to is not the names you mention above.  He is talking about what he considers as Trad Jazz.  Of course different people have different ideas of what they call Trad Jazz.
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> Jim is referring to tuba banjo, two beat bands such as High Sierra, Natural Gas, Uptown Lowdown, Bob Schulz, Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, Blue Street, etc.  The YBJB type bands, SF style.
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> For instance, my band, the Fulton Street JB plays a lot of the same stuff but we don't have a banjo & tuba.  We have a string bass.
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> I asked to be put in the Trad room at Sacramento one year thinking that we would play those types of tunes.  The "true, one-eyed (as you call them) Trad, tuba/banjo fans disappeared in mass.  They can't stand to hear a band without a tuba and banjo.

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