[Dixielandjazz] Evan Cristopher

[Marek Boym]

I have no doubts, Ken. And wouldn't miss it.  But persauding people
who have been disappointed is often very difficult.
I believed that even with "a hastily-assembled pick-up group" he could
sound great, had it been composed of musicians sympathetic to
traditional jazz and swing.
BTW, the same musicians played later with Warren Vache, but with at
least one traditional musician, the reed player Merton Cahm, added.
Whether it was because Vache was a sterner task master, or because we
heard them at the end of their tour (quite exztensive for a tiny
country like Israel), they sounded MUCH better than with Evans.
Cheers

On 8 October 2012 22:34, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> Marek wrote:
>
> In any event, a friend and I are going to hear him again when he comes
> (January or February) with Django a la Creole.  But I am not sure that
> my other friends will!
> Hi Marek et al,
>
> You must persuade your friends to attend!. Evan with his own band is always
> going to be better than Evan with a hastily-assembled pick-up group. For a
> start Django a la Creole will play their own own repertoire with simple but
> highly effective arrangements on eclectic and interesting material. Then
> there's quality of the individual members of the band: David Blenkhorn is an
> outstanding, hard-swinging guitar soloist, Dave Kelbie is a self-effacing
> but enormously effective rhythm guitarist, Sebastien Girardot is a
> first-class soloist and hard-swinging rhythm section bassist and we all know
> that Evan is a world-class player. Most importantly, the whole is greater
> than the sum of the parts in this band: their internal balance, control of
> dynamics, good taste and above all their willingness to play unselfishly for
> the band make them a formidably hard-hitting little group. I'd be saying all
> this even if I thought they were a bunch of swines, but they're all good
> friends of mine and a friendly bunch of guys, so go up and say hello. If
> your other friends don't go they'll be kicking themselves when they hear the
> reports!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken Mathieson