<div dir="ltr"><div>Phil is right!</div><div>I have already mentioned the occasion on which the room in which Eli and the Chocolate Factory band was scheduled to play remained empty after another band - in another room of the same bar - finished its show and the kids started dispersing. Eli and the band marched out playing, and in two or three minutes marched back in followed by a throng of kids, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. And indeed, although there was hardly room to turn around, they started dancing. I spoke to some and asked what made them come in. The answer invariably was that they heard good music and came to hear more. The sad thing was that they had not known such music existed!</div><div>Cheers<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 03:09, philwilking <<a href="mailto:philwilking@cox.net" target="_blank">philwilking@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you play it well, our kind of jazz always gets an audience moving to it. <br>
When that happens, does anybody else remind an audience that much jazz music <br>
started as dance music? You'll inevitably get an "But I don't know the <br>
steps," or some such. To which the answer is "Make up your own, that's what <br>
they did when the tune first came out."<br>
<br>
Assuming there is even a little space, if you can get just one couple up and <br>
moving together, you will get more doing it. That will make them happy. If <br>
they move vigorously, they will buy more beer, which should make the saloon <br>
keeper happy. When the saloon keeper sees that the band increases business <br>
(believe it or not, that can be un-obvious to some, even as it happens), he <br>
will be inclined to hire it again. That will make the musicians happy.<br>
<br>
Everybody's happy, where's the down-side?<br>
<br>
Phil Wilking - K5MZF<br>
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-----Original Message----- <br>
From: Jim Kashishian<br>
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As often happens, a subject on DJML eventually drifts into something much <br>
larger than the original. I think that comparing "connecting with your <br>
audience" by a Jazz band with the dancing around we see with other styles of <br>
music is a stretch. <br>
<br>
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