[Dixielandjazz] Lu Waters

[Dixiejazzdata]

Scott: 

  Lighten up !!!   hell that's exactly what is wrong with OKOM and  Trad Jazz Societies today they have mostly all Lightened up into near extinction.
rallied around their dwindling members and not properly promoting their events to new audiences to replace all the dead and gone friends of yesteryear.

The entertainment business is an ever evolving business, treat it like a business and not a hobby and it will treat you and your organization like one, and allow you to leave it to others to actually Preserve and promote Traditional Jazz. and If you don't do that, then yes indeed it is gonna die with you.

Those who choose to Actually Promote and Preserve Traditional Jazz Never Lighten up.    No prisoners and no excuses !

Cheers,

Bart





With all respect back, I didn't have anything to do with it except go hear 
the band and dance. They only wanted to sell 250 tickets and they had a big 
dance floor open, so that cut down on the seating quite a bit.

Geez Bart, lighten up a bit. I'm sure you would have done it much better.

Scott Anthony

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From: "Dixiejazzdata" <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Lu Waters


>
>
> WHAT ????    With all respect !!   I have performed at Bimbos many times 
> and produced events there as well,  it holds well over 500 people as a 
> show room,
> I also had the house band there many years ago, as I write this I am 
> looking at the diagram for an upcoming event there in Jan.
>
> 26 Tables of TEN on the main floor stage front.  12 tables of four along 
> each side,  9 more tables of SIX and 6 more tables of 10 across the back 
> of the upper level   =  422 seated
>
>
> Perhaps they elected to not  seat people on the main floor and have it as 
> a Big Dance Floor.
>
> Makes no sense to not maximize your  ticket sales and raise money to 
> continue to promote the Music, unless of course you take your non profit 
> status literally.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart
>
>
>
>
> They only had room for 250 and they sold out in only a few days. This 
> isn't
> a case of being "private" and too few people hearing about it, it's a case
> of not enough space. Bimbo's is great, by the way.
>
> Scott Anthony
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Must have been a private affair to Preserve Traditional Jazz :))
>>
>> Many others also never heard anything about it, too bad because we would
>> have gone.
>>
>> Traditional Jazz,  the best kept secret in the USA,  got so big hardly
>> anybody goes anymore.
>>
>> And in a Beautiful and appropriate setting too, Bimbo's is still the
>> finest Club in San Francisco.
>>
>> Sadly,
>>
>> Bart,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Don Robertson wrote:
>>>I had  a wonderful afternoon/evening Sunday Dec 4, with many of my jazz
>>> friends at the celebration of what would have been Lu Watters' 100th
>>> birthday.
>>>
>>>  John Gill's Yerba Buena Stompers put on a great concert at Bimbo's 365
>>> Club in San Francisco.
>> (snip)
>> I wonder why I didn't know a thing about the concert?
>> --Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> _