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

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Playing at the Downtown business association's annual Hottest Yard Sale a
young-ish man of about 35 stepped up between sets with a very peculiar
request: he wondered if we knew "Chicken Walk" and sang a few bars when it
didn't ring a bell with me. It stumped me -- I looked it up just now and
find it was 1916 Irving Berlin!

Now *that* doesn't happen every day!

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, Bob.
>
> I certainly didn't wish to come off as "bragging" by stating that we have
> plenty of club dates in Madrid.  I of course do know that I am extremely
> fortunate to be in an area where there is still a very lively night scene.
> I
> also realize that it is a very different scene in the U.S.
>
> Madrid has a very vibrant night life, and people are always out on the
> streets, not in cars, but walking!  Most of the downtown area is blocked
> from traffic, creating huge pedestrian zones.
> Last nite, when leaving the club at 1am, I could barely get out the door
> for
> the gangs of people out on the street!  The place we were playing at is an
> "early nite club", as the kid's Night Clubs don't even open their doors
> until well after 1am, and are going strong until 7am....every nite of the
> week.
>
> Anyway, the point I was trying to make was that our music is not a museum
> piece by any means. The kids do know a lot of the tunes....just not
> necessarily the old, old ones.  Hello Dolly, What a Wonderful World, The
> Saints (of course!), Mr. Sandman, Cabaret, The Pink Panther, In the Mood,
> etc., will always get people's attention.  We toss those in between other
> less known jazz tunes, and get a good level of attention!  Our audience is
> mainly 18 to 40 yr olds, with a drop of an older crowd.  Most are not jazz
> fans, but people that enjoy a happy sound.  I'm quite pleased with that!!
>
> Mike Woitowicz wrote:
> >Unless the musicians performing the music re-invent their playlists and
> performances to correspond to today's customers, the musical work will
> disappear.
>
> We have done just that, slipping in the more known tunes little by little,
> and continue to entertain the old & the young...and, get hired!
>
> As an added note, thank goodness for the active club scene, as since 2008
> and the economic crisis, our bigger concert gigs (concerts supported by
> local city halls, company dinners, weddings) have dropped drastically.  I
> don't see that ever coming back to the level it once was.
>
> Jim Kashishian, Madrid
>
>
>
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