[Dixielandjazz] FW: Dukes

[Marek Boym]

>
> The Assunto boys played well and were often around (they were just a little
> younger) but the group itself wasn't looked at the same way the other bands
> were.  It wasn't as much a question of good or bad or of commercial or non
> commercial.  It was more just "different."  At least that is my memory from
> being there as a kid.

I have heard most of the Dukes Audio Fidelity LPs, having been told by
a fellow rifleman that "they were the tops," but never found them
convincing.  I love their Deccas and Columbias and RCAs, recorded with
different rhythm sections.
>
> . Still neither of them were in the same group
> (to me at the time) as the various New Orleans groups or the Condon/Rampart
> Street Paraders sides.

I have all the GTJ Watters, and I agree with you.
>

Cheers,

Marek
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