[Dixielandjazz] Flirting With The Audience

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

lol ... well the Owen Sound school kids all know about OKOM! One of
our trombone players told us a year ago "Nobody listens to *this* kind
of music anymore" only we found out last Christmas that he had added
Louis Armstrong Hot Fives to his ipod ;)

Museum music?  Them's fightin' words: it was raw teen punk moxy when
Nick LaRocca took the stage in 1916 and played to dropped jaws and
silence that turned to wild abandon to the wee hours of the morning,
and it still is Young Punks On Rhythm in our books :)

I even get to yell out, "Because you can't get enough Jelly Roll in
Owen Sound on a Saturday afternoon!" (which, social workers telll me,
is perhaps not entirely true ;)

the titles that actually upsets these kids are Copenhagen ("You can't
tell them it was a brand of *tobacco*!!") and the Tin Roof Blues (only
because back in its major-port pre-prohibition-era days Owen Sound had
it's own Tin Roof namesake where the ladies were similarly 'employed'
-- my boys only let me hint at it -- little do these Canadians know
the real story behind the Maple Leaf Rag!!)

On 7/6/13, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> Roy Taylor wrote:
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> Last weekend we played a walk-around gig at a local golf club family fair.
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> We got a few curious and positive vibes from the audience.  One young girl
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> was watching my sousaphone with some fascination...so I stopped playing
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> briefly and asked her if she knew what song we were playing.  She said no.
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> So I told her, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby".
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> She must have been warned about lecherous old men, for she turned and
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> walked away without any further comment.
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> Just got me to thinking, we were playing to an audience even whose parents
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> don't know the songs.
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> Yup, that is the way it is. We are now playing museum music. When I started
> playing OKOM as a teenager, the “Jazz Age” was only 30 years away. Now it is
> 90 years away. Even the 60 year olds were born in 1953 and think music
> started with the Beatles or even later with bands that I can’t stand and
> never listened to.
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> Sure, there are some young bands playing OKOM. But still, “Our Kind Of
> Music” has not penetrated the general public’s consciousness. And, other
> than a few live performances, how can it. It has almost disappeared from
> radio and TV. Record stores where you might accidently run across an OKOM
> recording have all but disappeared.
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> Well, that’s progress…
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> -Bob Ringwald
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