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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Dave Brubeck's kids...and Dave
himself...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B><A href="mailto:BudTuba@aol.com">BudTuba@aol.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:BudTuba@aol.com">BudTuba@aol.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A
href="mailto:JimDBB@aol.com">JimDBB@aol.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:JimDBB@aol.com">JimDBB@aol.com</A>>; <A
href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com">dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</A>
<<A
href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com">dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:04 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [Dixielandjazz]
Marsalis >> Pretentious blather >> Jazz
Families<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 3/6/03 12:46:04 AM
Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:JimDBB@aol.com">JimDBB@aol.com</A>
writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">Jim Beebe writes about the Marsalis review in the New York
Times<BR><BR><BR> >With pretentious blather like this review, no
wonder jazz is in<BR>trouble.<BR><BR> >" The music gushed over the
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>I saw and greatly
enjoyed the show on PBS and recorded it for my future enjoyment, and believe
me I'm a moldy fig musician. If we think of jazz as not being static,
this was a revealing window into the future. It was definitely not a
recreation of the early sounds, but took off from it. Had I been there,
I would have been "gushed". <BR><BR>Amazing that the kid brother playing
drums was praised by all of the rest as the most musical of the bunch...could
be hype, but I don't think so. His drumming was quite musical and not
pretentious like Krupa would have been. Then I was amazed to see Harry
Connick, Jr as the only non-family member on the show. I like Harry as
well, both singing and playing and have several of his CD's after my (then)
teenaged daugher dragged me to a concert. Harry is to some degree been a
focal point for the resurgence of the swing dance fad and has moved away from
that on to other funky sounds, and now back to NO...the guy amazes me and he
was amazed by his teacher's family. <BR><BR>Obviously, the show was a
bit self-grandizing for the Marsalis family, but how many whole families have
taken to music and jazz as totally as they have. OK..Teagarden in the
early days and Mangione (Chuck and Gap) in the 1970's. Do DJMLers have
any other family suggestions? <BR><BR>
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face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT">Bud
Taylor<BR><B>Smugtown Stompers</B><BR>Rochester, NY<BR>Traditional Jazz since
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