Outed…as a dixielander
“Resistor” has outed me (see comments to previous post): I play in jazz groups that can, broadly, be called “dixieland”. Actually, most of us who play that stuff don’t like the term, and wouldn’t use it, given the choice. It has connotations of “white”, “corny”, “commercial”, etc. In fact our music can be pretty damn good, IMHO: here are Wild Bill Davison (cornet), Billy Butterfield (trumpet), Ed Hall (clarinet), Vic Dickenson and Cutty Cutshall (trombones), Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith (piano), Leonard Gaskin (bass) and George Wettling (drums), under the relaxed, strolling ‘leadership’ of Eddie Condon in 1964. The tune is “The Jazz Me Blues”:
Shiraz Socialist 
Will said,
June 10, 2007 at 10:27 pm
‘resistor’ is a stupid and ignorant fuckwit with a mental disease.
Ignore.
Will said,
June 10, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Nice post Jim.
Always good to be shepherded towards stuff you wouldn’t normally come across (i.e. outside of one’s usual orbit). Especially good when the subject matter displayed by the Youtube in the post here is so good…
In contrast to science (and your own posts), ideologues (e.g. resistor, the SWP types such as JOHN GAME etc) do not produce knowledge of the objective world, which of course includes society and its ideological apparatuses.
The SWP and JOHN GAME’S ideologies are/is closed — unlike the scientific standpoint, their ignorant and futile dogmatism and ideology is not open ended . The whole worldview of these morons and jackasses is an ideological construction and conception. Game’s ignorance and weakness is that his ideology is essentially weak in that it can never recognize for itself its own real limits. It is in this sense that Game’s ideology is an “opposite” to science, more precisely, to that aspect of scientific development which deepens our knowledge.
Non open ended.
What ignorant twats they are.
Will said,
June 11, 2007 at 10:30 pm
lJim ! look!
voltaires_priest said,
June 11, 2007 at 10:42 pm
What’s with the caps on Gameboy’s name?
Jim Denham said,
June 11, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Enjoyed that piece of music, Will: was it who I think, on the out-of-tune harmonica? The band’s Micky Katz-style klezmer chords at the end were bloody good
Will said,
June 12, 2007 at 12:59 am
Aye it was.
The performance was on a Los Angeles telethon for the Chabad Lubavitch Center of Los Angeles. The Lubavitchers are a group of Hassidic Orthodox Jews who are well-known for their kindness and generosity to all. In Los Angeles, they helped poor, homeless people dying of AIDS (who were mostly not Jewish), providing them hospice homes where they could die in peace and dignity.
JOHN GAME is an idiot and tool and a dickheaded twat.
Caps are obligatory when mentioning big fucking shit-heeeds.
voltaires_priest said,
June 12, 2007 at 6:17 am
Fair comment.
Jim Denham said,
August 18, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Because this may become a matter of historical record, I feel obliged to pass on the information that the bass player was *not* Leonard Gaskin: it was Al Hall (“All the Halls!”-Eddie Condon).