[Dixielandjazz] Trad Jazz Revival

[david richoux]

That was a good article, but Frenchmen Street has had lots of interesting
music since at least the mid 1980s (not all Trad, but certainly related to
it.) Now the focus is tarting to shift further away from The Quarter with
clubs and music halls opening along St. Claude and other parts of the
Bywater and Marigny areas.

Dave Richoux


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I take exception from the following statement by the authors of the
> articele: "Shaye comes from a jazz family, but her father, guitarist
> Joe Cohn, and grandfather, Four Brothers tenor sax man Al Cohn, were
> modernists."
>
> For one, I don't think that Joe Cohn should be referred to in the past
> tense!  He was here just a few years ago, and I have not since heard
> of his passing, so I believe that he is still very much with us.
> Second, even though he might have been playing modern as well,The
> Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet is hardly modern, albeit not strictly
> from Dixie.  Swing is much more suitable.
>
> As to the late Al Cohn, he had been a modernist, and made some "cool"
> records with his partner Zoot Sims (in my book, "cool" is opposed to
> "jazz;" "coo lazz" is like "hot frost" or "cold fire').  However, the
> yboth started in swing bands, and were reformed in their later years.
>
>  Shaye, by the way, at least based on numbers available on-line, is
> one hell of a trumpeter!
>
> Cheers
>
>
> > Here is a great article on the revival of Trad Jazz in New Orleans.
> >
> >
> http://www.offbeat.com/2013/01/01/the-new-swing-street-frenchmen-streets-trad-jazz-explosion/
> >
>
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