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My presentation at the New Orleans International Music Coloquium seems to have gone well. I've gotten lots of positive feedback, and an offer to publish it right after I finished giving it.
The weather has been beautiful, sometimes a bit cool at night but sunny and mild in the day.
This used to be the "down" weekend between French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest, but has become very busy, with many events and fine out-of-town bands staying in town for the interveening week.
Tonight I'm playing in in the opening band for Monk Boudreaux's Red Black & Blue for the White Buffalo Day celebration at the Maple Leaf. With all the great local and visiting trad jazz bands in town, I expect "The White Buffalo Brass Band" (that was the going name last time I talked with the leader) will be an unremarkable thrown-together band, but it might be fun, and certainly the event and the band that follow us are. As a few of the Riverbend Radio Ramblers will be in the White Buffalo Band, we may have a chance to throw in a couple of our signature bits.
In a development that I personally consider inexplicable, it's looking like my most prominent role at Jazz Fest this year will be an apperance on stage not as an interviewer, nor a musician, nor a presenter-- but as a featured guest singer. I'm not sure what this says about either the bandleader who urged me to do this nor myself for agreeing to it.
Some friends of mine and I have also started rehersing our small combo to play 1920s (and late 1910s) style jazz. Tentative name: Spanish Fort Jazz Band. (Old Spanish Fort is a part of town where one of the musicians lives, and was also a noted local music venue back in the day.) While I'm personally fond of some of the fun names of groups of the era like the "Jazzola Novelty Orchestra" and the "Purple Derby Orchestra" (the latter of whom all performed in derby hats died purple, of course), others prefer we select a more serious name. I suggested we call ourselves "The Trad Police" (which is musicians' slang for those who object when they play in a style that is not sufficiently historically correct) and dress up in Keystone Cops uniforms, but that didn't go anywhere.
Hm, with so many groups doing cover versions of the famous tunes by the early jazz greats like Armstrong, Oliver, Ory, Bechet, Morton, etc, I wonder if we might be better concentrating on playing the neglected second rate tunes by the second rate early New Orleans bands, numbers like "Cocoanut Trot", "He's Had No Lovin' For A Long Long Time", and "Cross Word Mama, You're Puzzling Me"? Hey, it's a concept. I'll have to bring that up next rehersal.
If a collegue objects that I'm being too flippant, I can point to examples of the trombonist being somewhat obnoxious and wacky as being consistantly historically correct for the era.
The weather has been beautiful, sometimes a bit cool at night but sunny and mild in the day.
This used to be the "down" weekend between French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest, but has become very busy, with many events and fine out-of-town bands staying in town for the interveening week.
Tonight I'm playing in in the opening band for Monk Boudreaux's Red Black & Blue for the White Buffalo Day celebration at the Maple Leaf. With all the great local and visiting trad jazz bands in town, I expect "The White Buffalo Brass Band" (that was the going name last time I talked with the leader) will be an unremarkable thrown-together band, but it might be fun, and certainly the event and the band that follow us are. As a few of the Riverbend Radio Ramblers will be in the White Buffalo Band, we may have a chance to throw in a couple of our signature bits.
In a development that I personally consider inexplicable, it's looking like my most prominent role at Jazz Fest this year will be an apperance on stage not as an interviewer, nor a musician, nor a presenter-- but as a featured guest singer. I'm not sure what this says about either the bandleader who urged me to do this nor myself for agreeing to it.
Some friends of mine and I have also started rehersing our small combo to play 1920s (and late 1910s) style jazz. Tentative name: Spanish Fort Jazz Band. (Old Spanish Fort is a part of town where one of the musicians lives, and was also a noted local music venue back in the day.) While I'm personally fond of some of the fun names of groups of the era like the "Jazzola Novelty Orchestra" and the "Purple Derby Orchestra" (the latter of whom all performed in derby hats died purple, of course), others prefer we select a more serious name. I suggested we call ourselves "The Trad Police" (which is musicians' slang for those who object when they play in a style that is not sufficiently historically correct) and dress up in Keystone Cops uniforms, but that didn't go anywhere.
Hm, with so many groups doing cover versions of the famous tunes by the early jazz greats like Armstrong, Oliver, Ory, Bechet, Morton, etc, I wonder if we might be better concentrating on playing the neglected second rate tunes by the second rate early New Orleans bands, numbers like "Cocoanut Trot", "He's Had No Lovin' For A Long Long Time", and "Cross Word Mama, You're Puzzling Me"? Hey, it's a concept. I'll have to bring that up next rehersal.
If a collegue objects that I'm being too flippant, I can point to examples of the trombonist being somewhat obnoxious and wacky as being consistantly historically correct for the era.
