[Dixielandjazz] Storyville - Duke Dejan Obit

[Stephen Barbone]

Correct, he would have been too young. But then, there are some opinions out
there that some brothels did have small dance bands in addition to piano
players. Whether they are correct or not is beyond me. The obit says: "He
played at the fabled Basin Street brothel Mahogany Hall."  Like you, I doubt
that.

Cheers.
Steve barbone

Rebecca Thompson wrote:

> The comment was that he would not have played in a brothel in Storyville. .
>
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> From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>
> To: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 2:51 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Storyville - Duke Dejan Obit
>
> > List Mates:
> >
> > Re: the comment that Duke Dejan was too young to have walked around
> > Storyville:
> >
> > Storyville opened in 1897 and was closed by pressure from the US Navy in
> > 1917. Duke Dejan, born in 1909, could well have been there as the NY
> > Times and the New Orleans Times - Picayune wrote in their obits. He
> > would have been 7 or 8 years old which, given the tenor of the times,
> > makes it quite possible for him to have been there listening to Louis,
> > King Oliver et al. Just as Louis listened to Buddy Bolden when he was a
> > youngster, and sold buckets of coal to the hookers in Storyville Cribs.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Barbone