Posted by Wade on March 15, 2004 at 01:58:00:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dixieland music posted by addendum on March 14, 2004 at 22:57:06:
We have a number of tunes that have alternate, "cool" changes that we use based on whether we are using guitar/bass or banjo/tuba. It works better that way.
Also, we change our verbal front line arrangements around to fit the venue.
We also do a lot of prearranged turn-arounds, tags, stretches, and intro/outro licks on many tunes. Also we will verbally create "medleys" on the spur of the moment. (Like Do Lord/I'll Fly Away or Do What Ory Say/Sheik of Araby). We will also change key on some tunes (on St. James Infirmary we might modulate four or five times).
At our monthly Jazz Club meeting the old codgers and codger-ettes like to get up and "peabody" (dance) so we must strictly use 2 beat or they get confused and sit down. But at background-type gigs I get to 4 beat pretty hard most of the time.
It is a world unto itself when you bother to pay attention.
Wade "I learn each time I do one of these gigs" Rackley