<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#400080" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Lucida Bright" LANG="0">In a message dated 8/1/2003 3:00:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The Death of Dixieland Jazz</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#400080" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">There is one big problem I see in all the back and forth complaining about the future, or lack of one, for Dixieland jazz, or ragtime, for that matter. What exactly do you want it to be, or expect it to be if you had your fondest wish? Do you want it played continuously on the radio? Do you want the CDs to sell like rap? Do you want the big stars to be Dixieland instrumentalists? What? In all reality, no music stays around at the top of the charts for long, and who said that was the ultimate achievement anyway? Today, even classical music, (the only kind my piano teacher accepted as real music), is considered a niche market. I think Dixieland has a solid place in the past, and that means it won't go away. The rest is up to who wants to promote it. Am I not understanding something here?<BR>
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Sorry,<BR>
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Dan (piano fingers) Spink</FONT></HTML>