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Old School
Oct. 12th, 2004 11:00 amSunday the WWOZ party was a Chez Voudoun on Rampart Street, a fairly new club with an interesting rich Voodoo and Buddhist decor. I don't think I've ever seen a really upscale Voodoo temple before.
I had even more fun, however, at the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra dance at Cafe Brasil. It's always a kick when the band plays tunes that are a cakewalk or one-step, and some of the crowd actually knows how to do those vintage dances (and the rest of us just have fun dancing).
A scholarly aquaintance mentioned she's started playing a 1915 vintage Albert-system clarinet, and we came up with the idea of starting a jazz "period music ensemble" using original instruments pre-1930. Hey, it seems to work in the Baroque music world. Forget about the conflicts between musicians who want to play more modern stuff in trad, go retro all the way. Hmmm. Suddenly I feel my 1925 silver Conn trombone is just barely sufficiently aged.
I had even more fun, however, at the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra dance at Cafe Brasil. It's always a kick when the band plays tunes that are a cakewalk or one-step, and some of the crowd actually knows how to do those vintage dances (and the rest of us just have fun dancing).
A scholarly aquaintance mentioned she's started playing a 1915 vintage Albert-system clarinet, and we came up with the idea of starting a jazz "period music ensemble" using original instruments pre-1930. Hey, it seems to work in the Baroque music world. Forget about the conflicts between musicians who want to play more modern stuff in trad, go retro all the way. Hmmm. Suddenly I feel my 1925 silver Conn trombone is just barely sufficiently aged.
