[Dixielandjazz] Support live jazz

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

While not Dixieland, last Tuesday night, on a Tuesday, a midweek and two
days before the holiday, I had been asked by Jake Parker Scott if he could
use my venue as he's home from college for the holidays and would otherwise
be bored.  I said sure, we'd pass around the can to pay him.

They played free jazz, Ornette Coleman style, here, in a little city 200km
from Toronto, a hockey town with only a marine-navigation/nursing college
... and my place was packed!  And not only that, the audience was
enthusiastic, totally into the sound and the scene, albeit they were 75%
college kids home for the holidays, but still, this wasn't standards, it
wasn't swing or dixie or even Second Line.

I found the audience strangely encouraging.  Unfortunately, being largely
college kids, they didn't spend much, several were counting coins to buy a
half-pint, but still, that they were there, mid-week, and there for a jazz
that wasn't anything like they'd hear on even the jazz-fm radio stations!
>From what I saw, Jake did pretty good with the cash in the can too.

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Jack Mitchell <fjmitch at westnet.com.au>
wrote:

>
>
> On 26/12/2015 10:53 AM, Marek Boym wrote:
>
>> Not really a jazz audience, so it hardly
>> applauded  each solo, but seemed quite enthusiastic at the end of each
>> number.
>>
> Sounds like a good jazz audience to me Marek - people who applaud every
> solo, regardless of its worth and continue on, drowning out half of the
> following solo or ensemble chorus are a pain in the proverbial.
>
> Happy New Year!
> Jack
>
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