Your video, We Will Rock You - Dixieland edition, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

*related http://videosift.com/video/Dixieland-Jazz-Serenade-of-Les-Vaches-Francaises

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Who Knew Cows Love Jazz? Well, they ARE french cows.... has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

I felt the same way at first...but they one me back with the ending. I felt overall it was sift worthy...but agree the 1 min dixieland version could have been left out. From what I understand all the numbers performed by these guys are done with the idea of having fun with the piece and with a sense of humor.>> ^jqpublick:

Here are my thoughts for the first 6 minutes and three seconds of this video:
"Wow, this is actually pretty good, the band's not bad... a few flubs but not too bad, but it's a difficult piece... hey nice! soprano sax... now the band's all here, are they -- oh God, no oh shit no, nonononononono... "
So. No upvote from me, unless I can colour it hubris.

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks for the promote

In reply to this comment by blahpook:
*moooooooooooooooooooooo

And I don't mean cowtip!

buddumbum.

>> ^Trancecoach:

typical! they stay for the concert, but not a single tip among them!
Sheesh.

Wiki sez:

Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century


>> ^shewbox:

Very cute! Although you might actually call that dixieland rather than jazz

Very cute! Although you might actually call that dixieland rather than jazz

Thanks dft!

This is eric's vid and @eric3579's title. He is generous that way.

So the quality is for him, not me!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
*quality *cute

Hey! Thanks!

This is actually one of Eric's finds that he didn't want to post. All my really good vids come from him....

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*promote

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Play piano and sax, learning guitar. Played in or directed 6 jazz bands, 1 jazz quartet, 2 concert bands, 1 marching band, 3 contemporary church bands, 1 dixieland band, 1 pit orchestra, 1 stage orchestra, 2 ska bands, and an assortment of short-lived, one-time other this and that. DJed trance, drum'n'bass, and deep house for number of years in college. Produced some trance and Drum'n'bass

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From famoustexans.com

Bob Wills hated the hillbilly image associated with country music. But then, this was a different kind of country music anyway. If he hadn't played a fiddle, no one would have connected country to the Playboys' music at all. It was really jazz; jazz that portrayed a dignified South, with flowing fiddles and classy, sometimes brassy, arrangements. Their rags, breakdowns, Dixieland tunes, and swingin' blues were an uplifting beacon of light in otherwise hard, depressed times of the 1930s.

The Playboys usually appeared in cowboy dress attire. No sequins or overalls, this was a sophisticated outfit. Bob's look was that of a well-dressed bandleader, but one from Texas. His cowboy hat, cigar, and fiddle were all part of his trademark appearance.

'Bob was a stylish, western rogue,' says Ray Benson, leader of Asleep At The Wheel, Western Swinging Bob Wills disciples for the past quarter century. 'He danced onstage, he was outrageous. He strutted like a peacock, unheard of back in those days.' In all other respects, he led a Big Band just like Tommy Dorsey, in a presentation that was downright orchestral - except Bob conducted with a fiddle bow.

Great post, sometimes. I recognized alot of early Dixieland Jazz and Juke Joint influence, his wiki entry confirms. My parents were from the Delta, heard this most my life growing up.