[Dixielandjazz] Kenton Changes Big Band Sound

[Robert Ringwald]

> In his reply to Marek Stephen G Barbone wrote [in part]:
>> You tar all the GREAT high school musicians with the same brush. Perhaps you should spend more time in the USA listening to the plethora of wonderful high School Jazz Bands we have here........
>     [Then posted some  tenuous links to support your contention.]
>> .......Like I said, lots of GREAT high school bands and players are around the USA.  And in cities like New York, there are lots of great young jazz players working in small clubs. They too have lots of soul.
> 



Bill Haesler answered:

> Of course there are lots of GREAT high school bands and players ... around the USA.
> But are they playing Marek's and my jazz?
>>From this distance, with my usual tunnel vision, I think Marek can rest HIS case.


Bill, at our (Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society's" recent Youth Jazz band festival, we had 29 bands from grammar school age to college, playing you and Marek's kind of music.  

--Bob Ringwald