<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp169ac862yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Robert
Calder,</span><br></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Your email
entitled “Grandparents in the Swing Era?” prompted numerous responses and follow-ups.
I note you have responded to other points on the mailing list but have yet to
respond to my questions of you regarding that posting. </span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Quoting
your previous statements, </span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv6869114336ydp464e4686msonormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">“</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Grandparents these
days might in Britain be like some Americans in thinking Kenny Ball a better
musician than he was, but if you were born sixty years ago Kenny Ball's heyday
as a pop star would already have begun receding.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv6869114336ydp464e4686msonormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228"> What is your measuring
stick for determining the quality of a musician?</span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">I am
guessing from the balance of that email that you are complaining about people
presenting or identifying something as trad jazz, when it is not. Assuming I am
correct, how do you define trad jazz? What are the elements of a performance
that makes it “tourist schmaltz”? Why do you think some musicians were/are
playing the “tourist schmaltz”?</span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">It appears that you are criticizing Harry James for comfortably
swimming in a similar schmaltz. Assuming I am correct, why do you think Harry
James et al went in this direction?</span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Kevin Yeates</span></p>
<p class="ydpe6da742cyiv5520714127ydp39a7e17msonormal" style="background: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Vancouver, Canada</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>