[Dixielandjazz] Stirring the pot -> young trad. players

[Dixiejazzdata]

 To further stir the Pot Nancy & Joe :

I just heard that your Friends Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band  containing some younger Players than the average acceptable age for OKOM players :))  will be Headlining a Big "Naughty Gras" Blowout for  CBS Radio at Cal Expo on Feb 26th,  www.KSFM.com  to a sell out crowd of 7000 + young people from Sacramento   21- 50 years old, who will party hearty like many of us used to do Second Lining to the Traditional High Energy sounds of New Orleans Music.  Interesting side note :  Tickets are $22.00 gen. adm.  and $75.00 for VIP tickets.  Not only is there a market out there for Good OKOM  they are willing to pay to see and hear it.    The California Honeydrops are also setting some new attendance records at appearances all across the USA & Europe.
 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Doran Giffin <nancyink at surewest.net>
To: B.B. Buffington <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Stirring the pot -> young trad. players


REGARDING:

Message: 8 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:51:37 +1300 

From: Joe Carbery <joe.carbery at gmail.com> 

Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Stirring the pot 



Joe Carbery wrote:

"Dixieland" (as applied to music) conjures up for me a group of portly 

grey-haired men in straw boaters (I forget what the appropriate US term is), 

striped waistcoats and sleeve-gartered shirts playing multi-themed tunes too 

fast and with absolutely no feeling. I know Condon's music was described as 

dixieland, but he loathed the term. "Trad Jazz" was a term coined by pub-

licists in Britain to describe a very commercial type of "traditional" jazz.



Hello, Joe and list mates!



Rest assured there is a new generation of Dixieland jazz musicians who do not

fit your description, above. Last weekend, I attended the TJYBF (Trad. Jazz 

Youth Band Festival) in Sacramento, CA, and I saw almost 300 students 

(elementary through college age) playing "Dixieland" or "traditional jazz" 

or as Eddie Condon preferred: "hot jazz" or "classic jazz."

You can thank Yvonne Au, mother of three fine jazz musicians, for coming up

with the idea and organizing the event for the past 6 years. It has grown

and proven to be quite a good source of education and inspiration for our

younger players. STJS (Sac. Trad. Jazz Soc.) sponsors the event, and I

would recommend this event to anyone who wants to donate money toward the

preservation of traditional jazz. http://sacjazz.org/youthfestival



Cheers,

Nancy



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