[Dixielandjazz] Preservation Hall youtube clip

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Put 'em on a youtube and my young band just might ;)

but also realize that new players listen with new ears, and that small
children prefer simple foods and primary colours for a physiological
reason.  when presenting this music to kids, what they gleen from the
performance is much as one of us might take away from hip-hop or
balinese gamalan, which is to say only the gross structure and, I
hope, the *intent* of the music, and the effect.  So while there are
no doubt technically better players out in the world, it doesn't mean
everyone sees them.

A good example of this was given by Victor Wooten in his very
wonderful little book "The Music Lesson" where he relates his initial
shock at him, a jazz bass player who consistently wins the Downbeat
polls, being hired by bluegrass player Bela Fleck, and being told to
go listen to Bill Monroe records.  Egad, thought Victor, that's
alternating tonics and fifths, bonk bonk bonk bonk, he'll never
survive! But on actually listening to the old records he discovered
something else, that the bass playing was really full of nuance and
finesse, and really quite challenging to pull off.

I much prefer to have the kids come back to me and say who they think
is good and who they think is better; it gives me a much better guide
to understanding how they are progressing with their ears ;)

On 6/15/13, Ken Gates <kwg915 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As to  the Preservation Hall snip on youtube----
>
> I'm a fan of the New Orleans jazz style as played by
> Johnson--Lewis etc during the 40s-60s ---as well as
> most of the styles prior to the bop revisions.  The
> PHJBs I've heard/seen up until now have mostly
> remained true to the basics of that style although
> sometimes short of the skill of their younger days.
>
> What I viewed on the youtube snip indicated to me
> that the necessary listening homework had not
> been done to successfully present the music at
> an acceptable level of "preservation".
>
> There are bands in Europe (like Gota River) and some
> in the US who can play the style at a very high
> level.  Too band the young audience didn't hear that.
>
> Ken Gates
>
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