[Tradjazz] Tradjazz Digest, Dixieland Overview

[Bruce McNichols]

Steve,

A point well taken. I should be more careful about what I send out. I did 
take the item knowing that the actual things covered are surely open to many 
opinions. That Bix thing was an obvious one. And that doesn't even mention 
that the concept that soloing, isn't automatically a good. That's because so 
many bands always seem to have EVERYONE take one, or more solos on each 
tune. That seems to be so even when so many players "have nothing to say," 
even with one solo.

The sad part is that you're the only one to comment (so far). We shall see.

McN



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] Tradjazz Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5


> "Bruce McNichols" <muskrat at bestweb.net>
>
>> Every once in a while, I take a moment and enter the world of Google (a
>> fascinating place it is).  I looked up Smith Street Society (there we 
>> were),
>> Muskrat Productions (there too) and Dixieland Jazz (if we're there, we 
>> ain't
>> up top).
>> I checked out the listing for Dixieland Jazz - an Overview and came upon 
>> a
>> very interesting thing. Check it out. Of course, I'm no expert but my 
>> lifetime
>> has afforded me many impressions of our music, its origins and its
>> permutations, and this seems to be a fairly accurate item.
>>
>> I didn't delve into all the pages but I read the first one, which tells 
>> the
>> basic facts. They covered the era of Storyville but didn't tell of it's
>> closing (although maybe that comes later).
>>
>> The itemizing of the various instruments, and when they came along, seems
>> reasonable, although I wonder if anybody really knows the exact details.
>>
>> I like the whole thing, as a primer about the music.
>>
>> GO TO: http://nfo.net/usa/JO.html   (copy it over to your web browser)
>>
>> ALSO:  Google dixieland jazz, for much more.
>>
>> McN
>
> Hello Bruce:
>
> One word of CAUTION about articles like the the one you mention. They 
> often
> contain information that is jut plain LUDICROUS. This article starts out
> with an incredible error, quoted below:
>
>>"Firstly, due very greatly to the influence of one musician, Bix 
>>Beiderbecke,
>>instrumental Soloing became a fixture of Dixieland Jazz. Musicians, such 
>>as
>>Louis Armstrong and others, would take Bix's idea and expand on it by 
>>making
>>Solos a fixed feature, along with routining the way bands would play, and 
>>some
>>other improvements."
>
> Was this part written by an idiot . . . or a racist? <grin> No wonder many
> black jazz musicians claimed that whites were ripping them off.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
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