[Dixielandjazz] patronising Storyville

[domitype .]

Well,
that was an interesting Tone Poem on the state of New Orleans Jazz history,
but what is the reality?

The Yuppies moving in to NOLA complain about the "noise" from bands playing
in the streets or clubs, the city council is non-committal about it, yet
the city would fail without Jazz.

Groups of outstanding skilled young musicians in bands like Tuba Skinny
struggle to exist on street tips and  random performances in Frenchmen
Street skeezy bars,

Local universities offer degrees in New Orleans Jazz History with classes
like "MUSC 2300 Intro to Computer Application in Music"

So where is this going? I sure don't know. NOLA music is an industry that
is vital to the city, but the city seems to be doing all it can do to
destroy the future of real jazz.

Festivals happen, bands are hired, audiences happen (or not) and local food
is eaten - I think this is probably good for the working musicians, if they
can get into the gig. Locals, tourists, die hard fans, clueless newbies get
to hear all sorts of music and draw from the history and energy of what is
happening now

Sorry if too rambly! It is a deep problem that cannot be easily answered.

Dave Richoux


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:43 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> The subject line could be a reference to being a client of the ladies...
>
> I had more in mind what happened a long time ago, it could even have been
> 1976, when "jazz" was included in some supposedly grand American
> celebration. The commentator mentioned the name "Louis Armstrong"  ---
> but what we got was a very below average white Dixieland performance
> utterly purged of originality
> of no musical interest whatsoever
> a colourless cliche
>
> I should imagine there might have been dozens of British let alone
> European bands which could have looked the same, and a lot of those would
> have been simply incapable of the banal anodyne
>
> I am with Charles!  I've had some of the tourist recordings for review and
> slammed them.
> Here is the Preservation Hall Band with .......  aaaaaaaaaaaargh!  "SING
> ON"
> Which from overmuch repetition became "poor old soul music"
>
> Tolerance of cliches turns people into machines.
> Ah, yes, that would be one of those old .....  ????
> WHICH OLD ????Weren't there those old.....  ????NOPE!
> How many dozen people could play like Louis Armstrong?
> Only ONE dozen????
>
> I did overhear someone marvelling at report of Benny Waters' enormously
> long career (it was about ten years, actually, before he played his final
> gig, when I heard this)..   "Did he really play AT STORYVILLE????"
> ALAS this was not a reference to the club in Benny's native Boston where
> Bechet and Bunk had a gig.NO, Benny had left, years before Storyville
> opened.And then we have Thomas Jefferson
> not to mention "Oh, Red!" a washboard player who also had a trombonist
> namesake --yep, George Washington
>
> any more of this folks will think I've a Burr under my saddle
> Robert Calder
>
>
>
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