<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting report but bad news about the demise of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Traditional Jazz Society. I've been loosely tracking the New Orleans Jazz Club since its origin in 1948, when I lived and played drums in the city. The Club was an important group historically and it kept visible for decades. It flagged when its publication, The Second Line, became irregular (a symptom, or than a cause?) and leadership didn't have the energy to rev it up. The monthly jam sessions, though, are still going on. I don't know about the quality of the music or the attendance, but as you say, tons of cultural change have made a difference in just about everything. Plenty of fine jazz players in all styles there today, not always well employed, plus excellent and awful busker/trad groups and far more blue, rock, and whatnot than I'd care to hear. Another sad effect of aging—I'm harder to please. </font><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Charle<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""> </font><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2018, at 4:31 PM, Charlie Hull <<a href="mailto:charleshull7652@comcast.net" class="">charleshull7652@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">The times are indeed
a-changing, Charles, and the population of us dinosaurs and OKOM
proponents is diminishing. Sacramento's once-huge Jazz Jubilee
and once-active Traditional Jazz Society are both history. The
Jubilee reached an unsustainable level, and instead a
downsizing, the leadership decided to borrow money to keep it
large, leading to eventual bankruptcy and dissolution of the
Society. There was an attempt to form a replacement society, but
that, too, failed after a few month because the leadership's
ideas, including abandoning the monthly music sessions, were
unpopular with the players. The latter had held back on paying
dues to join until they could see where it was going. The
controlling board decided to dissolve the new Society rather
than consider what the musicians wanted. Which was only to keep
the established regular sessions where they could meet and play
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</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">The desire to continue
monthly sessions with guest bands and jamming was not in the
plans of the new "Jazz and Swing Society" leadership's goals,
and the monthlies ended. There has recently been a movement to
establish monthly jam sessions. One jam session meeting has
taken place, and the prognosis is good for continuance.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">There is a pizza
parlor venue in Sacramento which features Wednesday evening
music. It started a few years back with trad music, but has evolved
with emphasis on entertainment. It still has local trad bands,
but also features swing and some country music. The customers
don't seem to care as long as it's musical and fun.<br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Most of my trad peers
are playing for senior dances and entertaining at senior
residential facilities. The store opening, building dedication,
holiday party and such gigs vanished during the last big
economic depression. The club scene favors country and rock.
Cultural evolution.<br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">The Sacramento Trad
Youth Program is still very much alive, well funded and well
managed; keeping the torch burning. So there's some hope for the
future of OKOM.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Keep on keepin' on,
Charles, and keep on ramblin'<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2018 12:26 AM, Charles Suhor
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<div class="">Good that you're still in the game, Charlie. several
DJMLers have mentioned their ages, and if I glean rightly, we're
a pretty, er, seasoned group—70+, maybe? I'm 83 but stopped
drumming at 72 when the tubs, as we once called them, got too
heavy to tote, my foot went all sluggish, etc. Many bands are
playing our kinds of music, but I wonder if groups like this
will suffer the fate of IAJRC. It was a terrific group with
scholarly articles in it journal, but by its rolls I saw that
the membership was superannuated (love that word), and it
folded.. The "American Rag" has morphed into "Syncopated Times,"
keeping up with trad, Dixieland, and bands, festivals, and
artists. Yes, it mostly covers USA and this list ranges far and
wide, but it's more literate and entertaining than it
predecessor and available online. I've rambled here, as befits
an octogenarian, but at 2:20 am (still a night hawk—old habits
die hard), I'm going to bed.</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 17, 2018, at 12:21 AM, Charlie Hull <<a href="mailto:charleshull7652@comcast.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">charleshull7652@comcast.net</a>>
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sans-serif">Charlie Hull, Sacramento, California</font></p><p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Tenor sax, clarinet, bass, guitar<br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Joined the list in its early years. At
Bill Gunter's request, made DJML badges one year for
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee rendezvous.</font></p><p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Celebrated my 90th in April. Still playing
a half dozen gigs a month; mostly as sideperson on
tenor and clarinet.</font></p><p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Keep on keepin' on.</font></p><p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Charlie<br class="">
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