[Dixielandjazz] Marshall Square Park Concert - guitar style

[Peter Dann]

Steve,

Thanks very much for directing me to these highly stimulating  
examples, where the guitar is very clearly audible. As you say, the  
guitar is anything but 4/4 strumming here. It's also very clean,  
sophisticated and spare. To my ear, the music sounds like a  
fascinating hybrid of older and newer influences, and the performances  
are outstanding.

With best wishes,

Peter Dann


On 05/10/2011, at 7:48 AM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

> Barbone Street did a concert in the park last Friday. The audience  
> was sparse at the beginning, (rain forecast and an early start at  
> 5:30 PM) but later swelled to about 150 people. Then it rained but  
> about 100 stayed, under their umbrellas.
>
> Here is a slide show which the "Friends of the Park" created, using  
> a song from one of our CDs as background. Most photos are early in  
> the program before the bulk of the audience arrived.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC2vm6X3oyQ
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> It gives an example of how our guitarist departs from 4/4 strumming  
> and does "his" thing. Peter Dann asked earlier today about guitar  
> style and how a guitar should be played.
>
> As folks can hear, our opinion is that there are precious few rules  
> about how an instrument should be played in jazz, trad or otherwise.  
> I think all of us have our preferences and that's fine, but if we  
> all played the same way, jazz would be quite stilted.
>
> Listen to the in chorus and you can hear the guitar single stringing  
> the melody at times. Then his backing the clarinet is anything but  
> 4/4 strumming. Works for us and the way we in which play Dixieland  
> Jazz.
>
> Peter, for more about how and what our guitarist plays, go to our  
> myspace page below my sign off and listen to the songs on it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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