{"id":2256381,"date":"2024-05-31T05:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-the-straight-skinny-on-traditional-jazz\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T05:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:17:15","slug":"heres-the-straight-skinny-on-traditional-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-the-straight-skinny-on-traditional-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the inside scoop on classic jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-the-straight-skinny-on-traditional-jazz%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2256381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crisis-declared-in-california-as-state-farm-announces-72000-policies-to-be-cut\/\" title=\"California in Crisis as State Farm Plans to Terminate 72,000 Policies\">text discusses<\/a> the concerns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">traditional<\/a> New Orleans jazz \u2063enthusiasts about the\u2064 potential decline of \u200bauthentic jazz music. While \u200cmodern interpretations thrive in touristy\u200d venues, the essence lies in small ensembles \u200cwith syncopated rhythms and collective improvisation, reminiscent of the music&#8217;s golden era from the late 1910s to the early 1930s. \u2064The narrative also touches on the evolution of a new generation of New Orleans musicians dedicated to preserving this heritage.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>For years, purist fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/entry\/traditional-new-orleans-jazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>traditional New Orleans jazz<\/a> have worried their favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>music<\/a> is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>jazz<\/a>, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, might be played for many more years in tourist trap clubs. But <a href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/tribute-jazz-historian-al-rose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the real thing<\/a>, the small-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">group<\/a> ensembles with syncopated rhythms and collective improvisation around identifiable melodies, the music whose heyday was in the late 1910s through early 1930s, seemed endangered.<\/p>\n<p>After all, what once was a vaunted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/2625944\/new-film-uses-jazz-funerals-as-prisms-reflecting-or-refracting-the-joyous-soul-of-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>\u201cnew generation\u201d of trad-jazz New Orleans musicians<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/1063813\/coronavirus-capitulates-to-cornets-and-clarinets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>clarinetist Dr. Michael White and trumpeter Gregg Stafford<\/a>, is now marked by men at or near 70 years old. The two generations behind them feature some fun musicians with lots of brass, but their funky beats have only a passing resemblance to the sounds of jazz forebears Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Tuba Skinny performs at the French Market Traditional Jazz Stage during the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans. (Kathleen Flynn\/The Times-Picayune \/ The New Orleans Advocate via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Enter the band <a href=\"https:\/\/tubaskinny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tuba Skinny<\/a>. On a recent weekend on Frenchmen Street, the hottest two-block stretch of music clubs in the Crescent City, this group with an unlikely appearance had the joint jumping at a venue called \u201cd.b.a.\u201d In this case, \u201cunlikely\u201d means relatively young, mostly white, a female lead cornetist\/trumpeter, and not a single native New Orleanian. For 15 years now, Tuba Skinny has plied its trad-jazz trade, but its obeisance to the old style still seems fresh and wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then, lo and behold, through the door of another club right across the street wafted the sounds of yet <em>more <\/em>traditional jazz. Peaking through the window, one saw an entirely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korean-pop-band-bts-crowned-artist-of-the-year-at-the-american-music-awards\/\" title=\"South Korean Pop Band BTS Crowned Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards\">female band<\/a>, name unknown. At both clubs, patrons were all but spilling out the doors. Both audiences were loving this stuff, these sounds hot and pure.<\/p>\n<p>At the Hogan Jazz Archives 5 miles upriver at Tulane University, one can hear a 1950s interview in which a New Orleans debutante says rock and roll is a passing phase but that traditional jazz surely will have lasting appeal. Sixty-five years later, Tuba Skinny is trying to prove that she was prescient.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, die-hard fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have feared its decline. While touristy renditions may endure in club scenes, the essence lies in small syncopated ensembles. The pulse of genuine trad jazz, bursting with energy and street vibe, remains a cherished treasure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":2256382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/YL.Jazz_.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/YL.Jazz_.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}