[Dixielandjazz] Austin Jazz Opportunities

[Augustine Daniel]

DJML--
    My buddy Dave Stoddard doesn't know i'm doing this, but it occurred to me that the kind of traditional-jazz-with-a-twist that is emerging in Austin is probably also occurring in other cities around the USA and the world.
    His list below includes not only relatively restrictive 'dixieland'/traditional jazz/New Orleans jazz (like the Second Line Jazz Band that i play tuba in), but 2012-takeoffs of it, but including a lot of what in the 1920s and 1930s might have been viewed as marginal jazz -- not quite small-group jazz, not big-band jazz, not skiffle, not dance-music, not Condon-style jazz, not Bessie Smith, but some really interesting styles on the fringes of all of those, transmogrified for these times.
    I think that younger folks are rediscovering the joys of making jazz themselves, but their approach is not circular, but spiral: they've adapted those early quasi-jazz styles into something organic to these times, and a lot of people under 40 (or even under 25) are liking it.  I bet you'd find similar bands and styles in your area.  
    If you asked someone who likes traditional jazz if there were any dixieland bands in Texas, they would be hard-pressed to come up with anyone except Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the new Mission City Hot Rhythm Cats (both of San Antonio) and maybe a couple of little dixieland bands in Austin (nothing much in Dallas or Houston).  But if you asked some folks in their 20s or 30s if they knew of any jazzy acoustic non-guitar-based bands, that played songs from the 1920s and 1930s and people knocked themselves out dancing to them, just in Austin alone i bet you'd get a dozen bands like that, playing in houses converted into restaurants/clubs in the cheaper sections of town, in lots of minor and unpublicized venues.  I suspect that as our old styles of jazz seem to be played by and listened to by fewer and fewer people, at the same time a number of new styles of the same kinds of jazz are being reinvented under our noses, unbeknownst to us.

    Dan
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From: "Dave Stoddard" <dhs2 at peoplepc.com>
Date: June 5, 2012 11:35:21 PM CDT
To: <dhs2 at peoplepc.com>
Subject: Austin Jazz Opportunities

 
The Austin Traditional Jazz Society will wind up its 2011-12 season on from 2 to 5 pm on Sunday, June 10 with another version of the annual ATJS All-Stars.   This group will feature Plano jazz star Bob Krenkel on soprano and bass saxophones and clarinet.  David Jellema will play cornet, with Mike Pittsley on trombone.   The rhythm section will feature Mark Hess on piano, Bobby Black on banjo and Budge Mabry on drums and washboard.  I will lead the group and play tuba.  This should be a fine jazz ensemble.  The concert will be held at Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research Blvd.  For more information please see the Society website at www.atjs.org.
   
Dave Stoddard
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Texas Hot Jazz presents its monthly jam session on Thursday, June 7 from 7 to 9 pm at Star
Coffee Company, 114 Main Street in old Round Rock.  Come, see and hear jazz ensembles
created before your very eyes.
 
Scott Bailey's Second Line Jazz Band will play at Star Coffee Company, 114 Main Street,
Round Rock on Thursday, June 21 from 7 to 9 pm.
 
The Chaparral Dixielanders
Friday, June 29 at Carousel Lounge, 1111 East 52nd Street, 7 to 9 pm
I will play trombone on this gig.
 
Aunt Ruby's Sweet Jazz Babies
Mondays at Quality Seafood, 5621 Airport Boulevard, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
 
Erik Hokkanen and the Hip Replacements
Tuesday, June 19 and 26 at Flipnotics, 1601 Barton Springs Road, 9:00 - 11:30 pm
 
Stanley Smith
Tuesdays at the Elephant Room, 315 Congress Avenue, 6 - 8 pm
 
Jazz Pharaohs (with Ryan Gould, Jon Doyle, JD Pendley and David Jellema)
Wednesdays at the Elephant Room, 315 Congress Avenue, 6 - 8 pm
 
Datri Bean (Southern Fried Vintage Jazz with piano, clarinet, accordion and vocals)
Wednesday, June 6 at the East Side Showroom, 1100 East 6th Street, 9:00 pm
 
Violet Crown Serenaders
Thursday, June 7 and 21 at the East Side Showroom, 10:30 pm
 
Hot Club de Fork
Tuesday, June 19 at the East Side Showroom, 9:30 pm
 
East Side Dandies/Spread Eagle Jazz Band
Thursday, June 28 at the East Side Showroom, 10:30 pm
 
The Hollywood Revue
Thursday, June 14 at the East Side Showroom, 10:30 pm
Sunday, June 24 at the East Side Showroom, 10 pm
Thursday, June 21 at the Elephant Room, 6 - 8 pm
 
Jon Doyle and his All-Stars
Thursday, June 21 at the Fed, 24th and San Gabriel Sts., 9 pm
 
Albanie and her Fellas
Friday, June 15-22-29 at the Elephant Room, 6 - 8 pm
 
The Copa Kings
Friday, June 8 and 29 at the High Ball, 1142 South Lamar Boulevard, 7 - 10 pm
 
Hot Club of Cowtown
Wednesday, June 6-13-20 at the Continental Club, 6:30 pm
Mondays at the Continental Club Gallery, 8:30 pm
 
T Bonta Trio
Friday, June 22 at Satellite Bistro, 5500 W. Slaughter Lane, 7 - 10 pm
Saturday, June 30 at Satellite Bistro, 7 - 10 pm
 
T Bonta Quartet
Wednesday, June 13 and 27 at the Broken Spoke, 6 - 8 pm
 
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