[Tradjazz] Hello again

[Bruce McNichols]

Hi, 

I'm Bruce McNichols.  Perhaps you've heard me on Radio OKOM.  My buddy, Bill Taggart, created OKOM and OKOM Radio.  What brought the two of us together was our love of old-time jazz.

Now that Bill has created this discussion group, it has come out that he and I do NOT see eye to eye, on many things.  I like the same kind of music he does.  He likes a lot of the kind of music I love.  That's the easy part.

The trouble begins when we start trying to define different styles of music.  One time on Radio OKOM, Bill played a track from a CD entitled "Brazilian Ragtime."   It was not Bill's favorite, to say the least.  In fact, he thought that I had played the wrong CD.  My take on that one, is that it is indeed Ragtime, though not the Ragtime that might first come to mind.  I call it Classic Ragtime.
  As you'll hear (and read) me say often: "That's neither good nor bad."  After all "Ya like what ya like, and ya don't like what ya don't like."  Who am I to say what's good and what's bad?
Also, who am I to say what's jazz and what's not?  

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I don't think that Bill is fond of my expression "Classic Jazz."  I know that I am not fond of his feeling that the term "Trad Jazz" refers to British bands (only).

Dat's what make the world go 'round.  Different Strokes, and all that.

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I've taken a cue from Mr. Taggart, by purposely posting some opinions that I suspect might garner other opinions.

BRING 'EM ON.

McN


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