Annual ATJS Jam Session - Jan. 11, 2009
By Dave Stoddard
The Annual ATJS Jam
Session will be held at the Cap City Comedy Club on Sunday, January 11,
2009 from 2 to 5 p.m. This annual event represents several
things.
The most important thing is that it gives musicians who are not part of
a regular band a chance to meet other jazz players in the Austin area. They
get a stage to play on and a chance show what they can do. This is a tradition as
old as jazz itself. Jazz players who impress may get some work out of it. This has happened at
recent ATJS Jam Sessions.
It also gives jazz players a chance to play with a variety of other
musicians. Sometimes this means that emerging players get to play with the best jazz players in
the Austin area.
Dave Stoddard runs a structured jam session, assembling bands out of
available players with varying levels of experience. Dave also tailors the tunes
played by each group so that the
more advanced groups tackle more complicated or obscure songs, while
other groups might get more mainstream traditional tunes--still fun,
still very effective.
The result is some of the best jazz that ATJS presents all
year. The 2008 Jam Session featured 21 jazz players, several
appearing in the Jam Session for the first time.
The Jam Session often serves as an introduction to the Austin
Traditional Jazz Society
for people who might like to try listening to a traditional jazz
concert but are not yet members. The Jam Session is a free
concert, so come and hear some great traditional jazz created
on-the-spot by some very talented players. Cap City Comedy
Club has a kitchen which is open from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
To sign up for the 2009 Jam Session, click HERE.
DIXIELAND JAZZ CENTRAL TEXAS
DISCUSSION GROUP FORMED
By Jim Ivy
One of the things
that has been missing on this website is a place where members and
others interested in Dixieland Jazz in our Central Texas area can post
information and carry on discussions. Now there is a Yahoo
group just for Dixieland fans in Central Texas. Everyone is
welcome to join the discussion. You can post photos and files
there that may be of interest to other Dixieland fans also.
Check it out now - go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DixielandJazz
Join the group now. Voice your opinion about
Dixieland Jazz
in Central Texas!
ATJS 08-09 Concerts Bring Back Favorite Bands,
Areas Newest Dixieland Band, Jan. Jam Session
...Plus Special Concert, All at Cap Citys Cabaret
By Malcolm Rodman
Traditional Dixieland Jazz is alive and well in Central Texas
thanks
to the loyal fans of the Austin Traditional Jazz Society. This Fall
marks our 32nd season of bringing Our Kind of Music to Central Texas
audiences. And, we want you and your friends to be part of it! Use this
pre-addressed form to renew for the new season!
|
The
2008-09 Schedule
(Subject to change. Timely
information at www.atjs.org)
|
| September 7, 2008 |
Silver Creek Jazz Band |
| October 19, 2008 |
Giant City Jazz |
| November 16, 2008 |
Mission City Hot Rhythm Cats |
| January 11, 2009 |
ATJS Jam Session |
| February 15 or 22, 2009 |
Band Aid Jazz Band |
| March, 2009 |
Special Concert (TBA) |
| April 19, 2009 |
Easy Street Ramblers |
| May 17, 2009 |
Swinging Strings |
| June 21, 2009 |
ATJS All-Stars |
Our Home, Cap City Comedy Club. Musicians and fans
alike
appreciate the staging and sight lines from every part of the hall and
the superior sound system. The room allows musicians and fans to play
off one another. Our fans have responded favorably to the suggested two
item minimum (drinks and/or food). The burgers and other fare turned
out by the kitchen from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. have been received
enthusiastically.
Concerts are on Sundays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Cap City
Comedy Club,
8120 Research Blvd. (US 183) at Anderson Square in North Austin.
Admission
for ATJS members is free by showing the current (Red) membership card.
Guests, Public invited: $10.00. Suggested minimum: 2 items, food and/or
drink.
Doors open 1:30 p.m. Features: Food (kitchen open 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.),
full bar
to 5:00 p.m., dance floor, free parking with overflow parking one block
south.
Subscribe now to ATJS's 2008-2009 season of Dixieland Jazz
concerts at Cap City Comedy Club's Cabaret
The best deal is to join before September, to take advantage
of our
full years program. To encourage newcomers throughout the year, we
always credit your $10.00 single show admission fee toward a season
membership and dues are pro rated as the season progresses. See the
front desk, or check www.atjs.org for details.
** In recent years, ATJS has sponsored Austin appearances by
the Jim Cullum Jazz Band of San Antonio, Connie Jones Jazz All Stars
from New Orleans and Ed Polcers Jazz Band from New York.
The Austin Traditional Jazz Society, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit society,
is dedicated to the preservation and
performance of Traditional Dixieland Jazz in Austin and Central Texas /
P.O. Box 27694 / Austin, TX 78755-7694 / www.atjs.org / President: Tom
Straus / Editor: L. Malcolm Rodman / (512) 795-9112 /
E-mail:: mnbrodman@austin.rr.com
Call for Submissions
Do you have
an idea for an article that will be of interest to ATJS members and to
the
hundreds of others who visit ATJS.ORG each month? Over the
last thirty days, ATJS.ORG has had
over
500 visits from 23 different countries!
Our visitors are looking for timely and up-to-date information
about
traditional jazz, or as it is sometimes called, "Our Kind Of Music" (OKOM).
We need your help in furnishing the information that will
keep ATJS.ORG one of the top
sites for OKOM articles and information.
If
you can write new, original articles concerning traditional
jazz,
especially articles connected to the Central Texas area, and, if you
would like to see your work published on ATJS.ORG, please submit
it to ATJSWebmaster@austin.rr.com.
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