<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Last night (technically - today) I enthused about the DSC Band show. I ain't heard nothing yet!<br></div>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."<br></div>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.<br>And this time the concert lasted one hour and twenty minutes - definitely value for money!<br></div>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.<br></div>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!<br></div>Cheers<br><div><div><div><div><br><div><br><br></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-9078872461760490568DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid rgb(211,212,222)">
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