[Dixielandjazz] Should "Live" bands use the same musicians

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Oh, that there were both the discriminating public, and the extremely capable musicians, that another Jelly Roll Morton could get bookings for a disappointingly bad not exactly ensemble, by hiring Luis Russell's band during one of their breaks, and impressing bookers later to be dischuffed by the Rose rather than Red non-Allen trumpeter and a more normally unsinging Jay on trombone, et cetera ...  According to Red Allen talking decades ago on the BBC Jelly was much given to alternating the borrowed master-band to get bookings for men who couldn't command much by way of fees. 


Almost like a disbelief in live music. 

But who these days can afford to give themselves a bad name? 

Who doesn't give a damn if they're not asked back? 


Then there was the famous non-OKOM non-jazz Scottish group who not only used the same musicians, they performed on-stage to dubs of the same backing-tracks played through the speakers 

alas without the potential delight of being caught miming to a disc with a jump groove 


R