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LOL, please do....I rail on the blues police wardrobe all the time. Fedora, always a fedora, unless it's a newsboy cap. That's the only "acceptable" headwear so I choose a beaver fur felt Homburg or a ball cap and if it's a ball cap I roll the brim back cause a reverse rolled brim pisses a lot of people off, especially the blues police. Gotta have the bowling shirt, or a shirt with flames. If not that then a white v neck t-shirt with the sleeves perfectly rolled up might get a pass. Plus slacks, loose zoot suit style slacks, and some wingtips or Florsheims. Yuck. I wear combat boots so the needles and excrement in the parking lot isn't so much of a concern. Same if the rig breaks down and I gotta walk I got comfortable footwear instead of shitkickers.....
Originally Posted by pamosmusic
lol ... don't get me started on the Blues Guys Who Wear Dumb Hats phenomenon.
I'd rather dress for a jazz gig.
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09-10-2024 02:22 PM
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Basically just any Joe Bonamassa photo shoot.
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Yeah kind of except most of the blues police hate him. I wonder if it's the wraparound shades and extra gain on his signal. Probably just the fact that he is an admitted blues rocker. Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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Bonamossa is a great player, and he's very good at what he does. It just so happens that the music he's great at is like my least favorite thing on the planet
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Frank Sinatra said that once he put on his tux for a show he wouldn't sit down. He said that a wrinkled tux showed disrespect for the audience.
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You don't get to be called the Chairman of the Board in wrinkled trousers. Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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It also turns out there exist phenomenal players who are easy to hang out with and also own at least one suit.
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Could you sing a whole chorus in one breath while sitting? Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Gonna depend what they're singing about, don't you think? Originally Posted by Onesimus
As to JB... his is not my favourite blues but let's just say I'm waiting a jazz concert that's as overwhelming and moving as this one must have been.
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You bunch of conformist squares LOL
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Tell me you haven't seen a lot of good live jazz, without telling me you haven't seen a lot of good live jazz. Originally Posted by RJVB
Gonna depend what they're singing about, don't you think?
As to JB... his is not my favourite blues but let's just say I'm waiting a jazz concert that's as overwhelming and moving as this one must have been.
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My ex-wife and I went into a dusty haberdashery on Spadina in Toronto a lifetime ago and a beautiful ancient Jewish man was standing at the door and I asked him "how long have you been here?" He says "since about eight thirty this morning". Originally Posted by pamosmusic
lol ... don't get me started on the Blues Guys Who Wear Dumb Hats phenomenon.
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I was gigging a lot in those days. For a lark I tried on some hats and a certain Pork Pie looked amazing on me.
I just couldn't do it.
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True but irrelevant. I'm a pretty good at judging from recordings (not to mention live videos) how I'll react to a live performance. Overwhelming and moving are just not what jazz does to me. Originally Posted by pamosmusic
And if you've understood my postings here at all you'll realise that I linked to an acoustic performance with (ahem) "real" instruments in one of the venues with the best possible acoustics (which you can hear in the recording).
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Hats are great - but men take 'em off inside (caps too, despite the fact they ain't no hats Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
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Haha. Okay. Originally Posted by RJVB
Well I would say that, if you're judging how moving a live jazz performance would be, it would be relevant to experience a fair few of them, but I digress.
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Bonamassa is an admitted blues rocker. He has never claimed to be a bluesman. For all the shit people talk abou the guy, he can really rip it. On top of that, young people know who he is, which means some additional interest in blues and blues rock, which means potentially more money in my tip bucket at gigs so I have the same level of respect for him as I would anyone else who helped me put food on the table. There is no one with as high a profile keeping blues music in the spotlight, and though he be a blues rocker, he covers a lot of classic blues material.
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Oh yeah, I’m team Beaumont on this one. He’s a phenomenal musician, I just don’t happen to like the music. Originally Posted by DawgBone
And I also don’t think it earns him forgiveness for the pinstripe suit and shades
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This whole dress code thing could be simplified if you only had to play gigs at nudist camps.
Mostly, if no dress code is asked of me, I wear black pants and a black shirt. If nice attire is asked, I show up in a quality suit. If a Tux is required, that is what I wear.
And I always shower before the gig. This ain't rocket science folks. Just use common sense.
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We like ‘em on the front line, so we got a license to wear... Originally Posted by RJVB
(No, I don’t look like that on my jazz gigs.)
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Is your lead singer Anthony Bourdain? Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
We like ‘em on the front line, so we got a license to wear...
(No, I don’t look like that on my jazz gigs.)
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Quite a wondrous menagerie of tastes on the question of attire, clothes and hats!
I used to wear hats indoors and outdoors, on stage and off, but coupling a hat with a mask during the dark days of corona pushed the hats back onto the shelf.
Once masks were trashed, the hats never came back. Except on a bad hair day.
For other clothes, I never played at a nudist camp but used to try to style up a bit on stage. But after working in Japan for a couple of decades, I realized a default semi-formal attire is black pants and a button down white shirt. So I wear that on most live performances, as I do at my workplace (a classroom). Sometimes, if I feel adventuresome, I wear a black shirt and white pants. I've never felt right in ties, so to add little color to the black and white, I might wear some funky socks.
Besides not having to think about what to wear, this makes the wardrobe svelte.
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No, but we have no reservations about him Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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Define fair few? I think I meet any fair definition (hah!) given the offer in my neck of the woods. Originally Posted by pamosmusic
And I'll rephrase: there's jazz that can make me move, sure. But that's different from being moved.
There's a reason why blues is not jazz.
Vertical stripes make one appear slimmer as any alert Asterix reader will be able to tell you Originally Posted by pamosmusic
The shades ... I just assume he's light sensitive and needs them for the stage lights. Didn't Miles D. wear wrap-arounds too at some point?
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Well you’re talking about Joe Bonamassa … love him or hate him, one of the most famous blues/rock musicians in the world. So I’d say you’d need to compare it to live performances by some of the best jazz musicians in the world. Any good music can and should be moving in the right situation, performed by the right people. Originally Posted by RJVB
I used to work the door at a jazz club … I saw Maria Schneider eight times. Moving every time, but once one of her friends came unannounced and requested Thompson Fields so I saw that live. Doesn’t get much better.
Casey Benjamin using his vocoder with Stefon Harris and Blackout was unbelievably moving. Servers stopped walking around and just stood watching. It was kind of a wild experience.
Sitting in a tiny room with maybe a dozen other people watching Ben Monder and Tony Mallabee play free for forty minutes straight was moving.
Herbie playing Dolphin Dance.
Also Richie Havens was moving. Also Andrew York playing his tuned-down urtext cello suite was moving.
If it doesn’t have the capacity to move when it’s performed at the highest level, it isn’t very good music.
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You (probably) joke, but…. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
This whole dress code thing could be simplified if you only had to play gigs at nudist camps..
Naturists are hosting a clothing-optional beer and jazz festival in South London - MyLondon
The musicians mostly opted for suits.
Suits. It’s the right choice 90% of the time.
Musos - wear a suit, and don’t behave like a Visigoth. Everything else is negotiable.
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