[Dixielandjazz] Marsalis & JRM

[Marek Boym]

What I don't see is why to compare?  Each is different, which is as it
should be.  I am a great admirer O JRM, but I like the Marsalis
version, too.  If we keep comparing, we shoudl stick to the classics
(Louis, Oliver, JRM, Goodman, etc.) and forget the others.
Have a very good 2012
(Leaving the previous letter not due to negligence of netiquette but
because it is relevant to what I've written)

> Bob Ringwald and Bill Haesler prefer JRM. So do I but for a different
> reason. Namely that JRM did it FIRST and so all who come after him, playing
> close to the same arrangement, including Marsalis, are merely  copiers. The
> 100% authentic jazzer was JRM. The rest are musical poseurs. This definition
> only of poseur: "A person who pretends to be what he or she is not"
>
> However I think I can answer Bob"s; "Surprising that he (Marsalis) lets the
> recordings get out"
>
> Couple of reasons.
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> 1. The records sell and Marsalis makes money from the sales.
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> 2. Neither Bob nor I are in Marsalis's targeted audience. (Bill is also
> outside the target market but then he bought the record VBG)
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> 3. His target audience is the larger general audience, in some measure jazz
> challenged in that they will not hear a wrong chord or grade the trombone
> solo. They will simply buy the record and enjoy it.
>
> I believe that Marsalis's stated goal is to increase the public's awareness
> of jazz as a cultural art form. He succeeds admirably in that pursuit. And
> so, for us, the bottom line is simply that we do not matter to the success
> of his mission.
> I think this was reflected in the criticisms he received from members of the
> DJML and other jazz chat lists when the Ken Burns series was aired, and the
> general opinion amongst OKOM jazz heads that it was deficient.
>
> So the growls, the saxophone, the general presentation etc., appeal to the
> folks who might think Jelly Roll Morton was simply a 1930s character who
> loved to eat Jelly Rolls. And as Bob, Bill and I think, that's not all bad.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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