Posted on 12/06/2005 12:53:57 PM PST by caryatid
I think it's a good idea. There's a lot of talent wasted because kids today never get exposed to good music. When the budgets are cut it's usually in the arts at schools, especially in poorer school districts. That was done in the 70's and 80's and look at the state of music now. It really sucks.
My soon-to-be-X wife like to complain about stuff before it happened, and it usually din't happen. It's incredibly irritating.
Yes but it doesn't help when fine musicians like Herbie Hancock and other jazz artists pay lip service to rap or worse, perform with them.
Storyville was demolished after WWI.In the late 1990s, a group of businessmen in N.O. produced a 12,000 square foot "world-class entertainment venue they named Storyville District It is literally the gateway to the world famous Bourbon Street." It features a 12,000 square foot complex with many rooms with continuous live entertainment from afternoon to night. All this project did was borrow the name Storyville and it has nothing to do with the real Storyville ... which was a red light district created to confine the madams and their whores to one neighborhood.
IIRC, the original/real Storyville which across the ramparts [the direction away from the River] from the French Quarter ... behind the old Municipal Auditorium ... perhaps where the Iberville Housing Project is located.
I have noted that since Hurricane Katrina, inhabitants have not been allowed to return to that notorious project [Iberville] ... and, suspect, that developers are salivating over a potential opportunity to get rid of that dangerous housing project ... to "expand" the French Quarter ... and create a commercial, ersatz, Disneyfied "Storyville" [sans whores].
You don't need the stores with the internet. There are other means of distribution. This is being funded by at least two very well connected musicians.
I don't buy all that. Good jazz albums need to be in stores. If the only thing on the shelves is stale smooth unimaginative Kenny Gorlick albums mislabeled as jazz we are doomed.
Whatever. I know I can find whatever I want at specialty record shops. They are out there and can be found.
Amen to that.
In our family, that was always referred to as borrowing trouble.
In your town.
------Good post. It's nice to hear positive things. I wish them well and hope it is a success.
I have to make an effort to find them, usually in much larger cities ie Houston, Lafayette, used to be NOLA. However, once you find an artist you can then usually find their stuff online.
I live in a cowpoke town. I detest country music. The only stations here are classic rock, urban, country, pop, oldies and christian. There are NO jazz stations locally but thank God for satellite radio.
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