[Dixielandjazz] The New Dixieland

[Stephen G Barbone]

Excerpt from a review of the Red Hook Jazz Festival in Brooklyn, NY. This is a small jazz festival, mostly post bop jazz. Venue is a small community garden, attendees are local families, lots of kids. The mood in the audience is neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than you'll see at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show:        
 
 "Hot Cup Chili Pepper 7 had no problems in that regard. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, the group was an expanded edition of his primary band, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, with the addition of Dave Taylor on trombone, Brandon Seabrook on banjo and Ron Stabinsky on piano."

"Playing a batch of new pastiches, Mr. Elliott’s cohort often gave the impression of a Dixieland band on amphetamines. “The Shickshinny Shimmy” was a heaving stomp, with a fluttering, strange soprano saxophone solo by Jon Irabagon. “Gum Stump” was a slow-drag blues with extra measures spliced in. There was manic superfluency throughout the set, notably from the trumpeter Peter Evans and from Mr. Seabrook, who attacked his banjo with twitchy insistence, often using a violin bow."

Dixieland band on amphetamines? Banjo with twitchy insistence? Hey, why not?       



Cheers, 

Steve Barbone

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