[Dixielandjazz] Flirting With The Audience, now "museum music"

[Marek Boym]

Actually, Jim Cullum's exposure is only to already trad audience.  After
all, the band is not on the radio everybody listens to on the way from
work!  I guess that even our Jazz 88 has less exposure now that it is at
8PM than when it was broadcast an hour earlier, at a rush hour.
I know Europe is not the US, but people are people.  Here, some joints do
not pay the musicians so that they must depend on the good will of the
audience, but at least they get exposure.  I wonder how many US bands try
to play where young people are.  I know Steve BArbone does, as do Tom
Wiggins and Ed Polcer (the latter, I understand, does not mind busking).
Get people dance on the street, and they will come for more, even if they
have to pay entrance fees.  But you cannot depend on the media - they don't
know better!  If you want young audience, you have to reach out.  The young
people may not become staunch traddies like some of us (yours truly
included, but excluding many listmates who enthuse about Coltrane and his
ilk), but they will include Dixieland in their frame of reference.
Some may become trad fans.  I have mentioned listening to The Hot REvival
Band on its home ground, an Enkhuizen (the Netherlans) bar.  The young
audience knew all the tunes!  And it was not so long ago - in 2004 OKOM
musicians in the States were already bemoaning  dwindling audiences.
Cheers



On 6 July 2013 23:01, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Jim Kash wrote:
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> Bob wrote:
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> >Yup, that is the way it is. We are now playing museum music.
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> Jim answered:
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> Gee, I hate to always be painting this brighter picture, but we have 16
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> nights this month in a downtown Madrid club.  Kids from all over the world
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> walk in off of the pedestrian only street & enjoy all our music.  Ended up
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> last nite with What a Wonderful World with everyone joining in on at least
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> the end of each phrase.
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> Make it happy & vibrant and everyone will enjoy!  It's the way in how you
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> Jim, in Madrid
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> Oops there Jim, now you are starting to sound like a former member of DJML.
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> Must I remind you that you are not in the United States? There is no way
> in any town in the U.S. where a Dixieland type band can work 16 nights in
> one month. Maybe NY or New Orleans, but that is it.
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> Jim, come over here and try it in SF, LA, Chicago, St Louis, Philadelphia,
> Seattle, Miami, or where ever.
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> I don’t know of any club in NY where one band is playing 16 nights in one
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> Not even Jim Cullum now with his world wide radio exposure.
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> As I said, that’s progress…
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> -Bob Ringwald
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