[Dixielandjazz] Support live jazz

[Marek Boym]

Last night (technically - today) I enthused about the DSC Band show.  I
ain't heard nothing yet!
Today, the third (and last) day of the Tel-Aviv New Orleans Festival, I
went there again, this time to hear the Swiss boogie woogie wiz Silvan
Zinng with the American pianist-singer Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, and the
Dutch Swing College Band in "100 Years of Swing."
As I am not a great vocal fan, I had some doubts about the boogie woogie
show despite my love of the style.  But my misgivings were soon dispelled!
The show started with Silvan Zinng (born 1973) playing solo and giving some
background of the style.  The applause was thunderous!  It was not the
first time he visited Israel; the previous time, however, it was more the
boogie woogie as played in European dance clubs.  This was a different
proposition altogether - the real thing.  Mr. Wayne gave us some more
background, played wonderful boogie piano, and sang.  After another two
numbers they called their Israeli accompanists, a drummer and a bass
player.  Pretty good, but the drums were badly overamplified.  And as Mr.
Selman is a powerful drummer, the drums sometimes drowned the two pianos.
Nevertheless, a  performance which left me sorry I had not gone to hear
them the previous day.  The pianists played solo, two pianos, and four
hands on a single keyboard. The repertoir consisted mainly of boogie woogie
standards - "Pine Top's Boogie," "Cow Cow Blues," "Honky Tonk Train," etc.
but not only.  Kenny Wayne played and sang "Georgia," hardly a boogie
woogie piece, "I Got My Mojo Working" (which he introduced as "gospel"),
and an original the title of which I didn't catch.
And this time the concert lasted one hour and twenty minutes - definitely
value for money!
And now - to the Dutch Swing Collegians.  Since this time  the programme
was "100 Years of Swing," but "swing" was not born before the mid-30's (a
100 years celebration in another sixteen years?), they made it 100 years of
jazz instead.  Consequently, it was mu ch more Dixieland oriented, and
included some old ODJB numbers, such as "Clarinet Marmalade" and "Original
Dixieland One Step", "Bix's "Davenport Blues," and more, but also
Ellington's "Creole Love Call" and such swing classics as "Chattanooga Choo
Choo."  The banjo was much more prominent.  The various instruments of the
reed players (Bob Kaper plays the clarinet and the alto sax; David Lukacs -
clarinet and soprano, tenor and baritone sax) provided for a lot of
variety, as did the different styles of both on clarinet.  It's heart
warming to see young musicians devoted to OKOM and playing with such
veteran bands as the DSCB - the trumpeter Keesjan Hoogeboom was born in
1983, David Lukacs - in 1978.  Both are excellent, as befits the DSCB long
tradition.  Everybody sounded great, again as one would expect from that
band.
All said, this was even better than the day before, and loner, too.  This
time the band played an encore - another ODJB standard, "The Tiger Rag."
No complaints about the price this time!
Cheers




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