[Dixielandjazz] Madrid, musical night scene videos, Canal Street Jazz Band

[Marek Boym]

Yes, different times!
Demand causes supply.  The dwindling number of clubs is at least partly
caused by dwindling demand.
The one place in London I know which features OKOM (at least - of some of
us) is teh Quecum Bar in Battersea, with daily serving of Gypsy swing.
Cheers

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 16:15, <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:

> Once again, we had a late nite gig (starting at 12:30am!) at a Madrid
> Dance Club.  Great crowd, dancing to anything & everything, but mainly
> Swing numbers.
>
> Below are 3 links to short examples of some of our numbers.  Always
> pleasant to play this gig, although it means dragging piano, amps & drums
> down a long flight of stairs!!  They even have one of our early posters
> placed over the bar in a backlit frame.  The only band to have been given
> this honor.
>
>
>
> *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9VqW-9vkO8
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9VqW-9vkO8>*   Moonlight Serenade
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKpWR6iHmM  In The Mood
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGiMNQgj5C8  Charleston
>
>
>
> We recently had a local jazz club close its doors.  Also, a restaurant
> that gave us up to 3 nites a month sold out to another restaurant next
> door, and they don’t want music!  Last year, Madrid lost two other jazz
> clubs.  Shame.
>
>
>
> I was recently in London, and saw a number of bars & restaurants that said
> they had bands, or jazz bands.  I enquired in two.  One had a lone sax
> player honking once a week to his recorded (in the box) backing band.  The
> other, a high end restaurant in the center of the theater area of London,
> featured once a week pianist with a singer, or a guitarist with a singer.
> Economics are taking its toll on everyone!
>
>
>
> When I first arrived in Spain in the late 1960’s, I played in a 6 piece
> house band 7 nights a week (from midnite to 4am), 11 months a year!  And,
> that house band, including myself, were busy in the recording studios every
> day, often from 9am until 9pm, backing all types of recordings from
> Flamenco to Rock to Jazz, to semiclassical!  Different times…….
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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