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infrogmationSunday 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.
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Date: 2004-10-12 01:22 pm (UTC)Period music
Date: 2004-10-12 01:40 pm (UTC)Both the tunes, instruments, and intended style would be from before 1930. No suggestion that the musicians had to be born before 1930.
In other news, lots of Kerry buttons worn at the New Leviathan dance, no sign of any Bushies. Oriental Foxtroters are overwhelmingly for regime change!
Too bad the city's votes wind up in the pot with the North of the state.
The electoral college: Reason # 538 why New Orleans should secceed from Louisiana.
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:05 pm (UTC)And don't even get me started about north LA. I spent a week there one day.
No indeed
Date: 2004-10-12 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 02:42 pm (UTC)Re: Period music
Date: 2004-10-12 11:52 pm (UTC)