[Dixielandjazz] FW: Young Cats

[Marek Boym]

Very impressive indeed.  I've already clicked "replay."  And the
instrumentation is a little unusual for their style.  But I've heard
young swinging bands before, albeit not THAT young.  Both Avram Felder
(a Unkrainian born Israeli trumpeter, arranger and bandleader) and Roy
Crimmins (an English trombonist with Irish roots, a founder member of
the Alex Welsh band, well known in Europe) have coached young bands in
Israel, and their bands were swinging within a few weeks.
Cheers

On 17 March 2011 15:48, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
> More young musicians...an improvising trumpeter at age 6!!!....from the same
> school in Barcelona as previously seen.  When I say "school", I believe it
> is something like a county sponsored "out of & after school" type of
> situation, rather than part of the school system as such.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTW9EsHH5_M
>
> Note the vocalization of the band toward the middle.  I find this
> particularly interesting as the "older style" of musicians that I recorded
> with from the 70's to the 90's were all graduates of the official Music
> Conservatory where solfeo was taught for a solid two years before a student
> even picked which instrument he would like to learn!
>
> They worked on the theory that C is always C, not on the "floating C" we use
> (where C is the root of the scale).  Therefore, they spent 2 yrs singing
> like these kids here, but actually saying the notes (so, The Saints they
> would sing fa, la, si, do.... Fa, la, si, do.... Fa, la si do la fa la
> sol...), and they could all do that at breakneck speed on any sheet of music
> in front of them. These kids are not saying fa, la, si, they are just
> bebopping along!
>
> The old guys also all subdivided all the times with tremendous accuracy.
> Therefore, if you wanted them to play something that had swing, you had to
> write in the anticipation.  That would create what were some very, very
> complicated scores to read, when all I ever craved was the tiny words
> scribble above like "play with swing", or "anticipate".
>
> None of these old school techniques seem to be apparent in these videos
> coming out of Barcelona, and I for one applaud the practice of making
> playing FUN.  It shows in their playing! It's organized & dilligent fun, but
> it is fun!
>
> Even if none of these kids ever get into music as a profession, it will
> enlighten them for their future listening!
>
> Added note:
> Spanish education is a strict thing, throwing up what the professor has said
> word for word, even at the University level.
>
> My eldest daughter when she first went to school at 3 yrs of age was scolded
> for drawing in her coloring book & not copying the picture on the left of
> the page.  The house in the book was brown & the grass was green, for
> example.  My daughter had painted the house yellow, and the grass blue, or
> whatever.  Where did our Picassos, Dalis & Miros come from? How did they
> break that strictness?
>
> Just another of my never solved questions I've had about the always
> surprising Spanish people...& I've lived, fully integrated with them for 45
> yrs now!!
>
> Jim Kash
>
>
>
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