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3936 tommersl Send Email Mar 16, 2007
11:36 pm
Patrice, I'm talking about the way Jazz was advancing downward over the years. It started as something very actual. What I meant is that many Jazz fans prefer...
3937 Hugh Crozier
jellyrollstomp Send Email
Mar 16, 2007
11:50 pm
I am firmly with Patrice on this. Of course classic jazz has not died. Variants calling themselves 'mainstream&#39; or 'modern&#39; may have died, or may not, I am not...
3938 pdqblues Send Email Mar 17, 2007
6:50 am
I thought this local event was a promising step in the preservation of the sounds of Glenn Miller, and to bring these sounds back to life for a new generation....
3939 paul gronemeier
pgronemeier Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
8:14 am
Heyyyy very good question....being a piano player...ive asked this question since the 70s. When was OUR music gonna run out?! Back then i enjoyed...
3940 Rick Hensel
nomcaller Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
8:14 am
Greetings. I'm a new member to this site. I joined two days ago. I've always been a jazz fan; mostly Big Band, Swing, Dixieland, and the "Hot" jazz of the...
3941 Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
10:46 am
I am afraid I still do not understand the question (or did it contain the reply already?) I suppose everyone is free to fix their own limits to what they...
3942 eupher dude
ruavdude Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
2:45 pm
part of the problem is the perception of "old time jazz" as not being 'real' jazz. I was told by a board member of a local jazz support group that they "only...
3943 tobinpreston@...
founderrrlr Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
3:09 pm
One might as well ask "When did Ragtime die ?, or When did Strauss waltzes die? or when did the Bible or the Koran become irrelevant and extinct? jazz like...
3944 redw1ne Send Email Mar 17, 2007
3:23 pm
Hello, I'm a new member and first time poster. I'm a professional clarinetist (both jazz and classical) in the Washington, D.C. area. As for this topic, I...
3945 Lluis Sala
lsala66 Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
3:23 pm
I am thousands of light years away from the knowledge of most of you frequent posters in this list, but I can't resist give my layman insights on this. By...
3946 Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
4:48 pm
Hello Ben Many thanks for your post, I think most of the "old-time"; (and still young) players I know would have said about the same thing. I also guess the ...
3947 Nino Frasio
conn20k Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
5:19 pm
Does anybody have a copy of the soundie "A Regular Trouper"? There is a scene with an exceptional Eddie that plays with Ruth Etting on a train. Nino...
3948 Howard Rye
howardrye Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
5:45 pm
on 17/3/07 17:16, Nino Frasio at ofellows@... wrote: Does anybody have a copy of the soundie "A Regular Trouper"? There is a scene with an exceptional Eddie...
3949 Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw... Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
6:46 pm
-Patrice, you wrote: "... you won't force the African-American audience to support styles that were clearly related to segregation, prohibition, depression and...
3950 heckman_michael Send Email Mar 17, 2007
7:40 pm
... Etting ... Go to www.djangobooks.com and under "categories&quot; go to video archives; then scroll almost all the way down to Eddie Lang "Without that Man". ...
3951 Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
7:48 pm
... From: "Robert Greenwood" <robertgreenwood_54uk@...> To: <RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: [RedHotJazz]...
3952 spacelights Send Email Mar 17, 2007
9:08 pm
I feel that genre labels should be used for convenient identification rather than strict definition. Each piece of music--whether recorded or "live"--is a...
3953 Jon Noring
jon_noring Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
9:23 pm
... Many consider late 1929 as the end of the 1920's jazz era since it coincides with the beginning of the Great Depression. But I tend to view that as...
3954 Rick Hensel
nomcaller Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
7:31 am
You have but to listen to Billie Holliday sing, "Strange Fruit", and Louis Armstrong sing, "Black and Blue", to know that black jazz artists--despite the "fair...
3955 Nino Frasio
conn20k Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
9:24 am
Thank you very much! ... all the...
3956 Nino Frasio
conn20k Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
9:29 am
Please forgive my pidgin English... and "soundie" term! Thanks for the info. ... Etting ... 1940s, long ... and released...
3957 Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw... Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
10:15 am
You misunderstand the point I am making, Rick. Of course I am aware that black jazz artists like other black people felt the depression and segregation and...
3958 tommersl Send Email Mar 18, 2007
11:43 am
... contain the ... Hi Patrice, the question is when Jazz died. It contained a suggestion but it is open for a discussion. ... consider as ... So everything...
3959 Howard Rye
howardrye Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
2:12 pm
on 18/3/07 10:14, Robert Greenwood at robertgreenwood_54uk@... ... "When the black man smiles in jazz, look for the sadness in his eyes" Thus Langston...
3960 David N. Lewis
udtv Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
2:24 pm
My personal feeling is that, while Jazz is not altogether dead, it is really, really struggling. And of course I'm talking about Jazz as a whole, not the...
3961 Rick Hensel
nomcaller Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
2:56 pm
My sincere apologies for coming in on the middle of something and misunderstanding. It was getting off the point of discussion, indeed; and I did not mean to...
3962 Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
3:12 pm
... From: "Rick Hensel" <nomcaller@...> To: <RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [RedHotJazz] Re: When did Jazz...
3963 Robert Smith
jayaressno Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
6:49 pm
Here in Norway, we have a much bigger audience for march music than for Jazz. There are processions over the whole country on May 1st and May 17th (Norway's...
3964 Rick Hensel
nomcaller Send Email
Mar 18, 2007
8:08 pm
Yes, I agree. March music--along with Ragtime, Minstrel, and West African styles of music--combined with a stronger Blues influence, of course--all seemed to...
3965 pgronemeier Send Email Mar 19, 2007
6:42 am
Too expound on my previous post....I think jazz, or our jazz <trad Jazz> is dying....but not dead,,,,,,yet. Like I said earlier, and if I am correct...
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