[Dixielandjazz] Preservation hall Jazz Band

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

the kids watched the concert last night and greatly enjoyed the whole
show, were suitably impressed by the musicianship and especially with
the audience rapport -- in the final analysis, there is only *one*
instrument to master, the audience ;) -- so say what you will, I found
the video effective for purposes claimed, ie to engage and inspire my
young musicians.

keep in mind too that this is the PHJB *road show*, and like a
Broadway roadshow, it may well be they send the second-string players
out, or perhaps due to scheduling it just worked out that way, but in
my case, with my happy room of suitably impressed watchers, as with
that Iowa room of happy pub patrons, I don't think there's much call
for complaint.

"If we went to Preservation Hall, would they let us sit in with them?"
and judging from the lax and easygoing session I saw, I rather suspect
they would ;)

On 6/13/13, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> I saw the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the early 80s. As with the IA
> concert, the musicianship wasn’t all that good. But, since most of the band
> members had been around during the 1920s there was a certain authentic
> feeling in their music. Their lack of musicianship was also somewhat
> understandable because of their advanced ages.
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> But, that is not the case with the current band – Or at least the band I saw
> on the Youtube clip.
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> You would think that out of the vast pool of good musicians in and around
> New Orleans, or the ones who have been associated with the town and the
> style, that they could come up with at least professional quality musicians
> to tour with the band.
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> Perhaps they don’t have the money to attract better quality musicians. Or
> maybe they feel that having good musicians in the band doesn’t matter?
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> I suspect that with the name Preservation Hall, the audience goes to the
> concert with a pre-conceived idea that they will see a quality performance
> from quality musicians. Unfortunately they don’t, but most of the audience
> don’t know the difference.
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> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
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>
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