[Dixielandjazz] The Dukes, again!

[Steve Call]

I’m pretty sure it is Jim Hall on guitar on the Disneyland record.
Steve

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:42 PM Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, Jim,
> A controversial band.  I have heard all the Dukes' Audiofidelity records
> and only liked the two with Armstrong.
> But I have also heard the early band with a very young Pete Fountain (RCA)
> and found it pretty good, and the two Chicago LPs, as well as the
> Disneyland recordings I find excellent (just listened to one of them, with
> Herb Ellis on guitar - wow!
> So it must have been the rhythm section.  However, I've heard their rhythm
> players with other, older, Crescent City musicians, an those are hot and
> swinging.  So what is it - I cannot really  put a finger on the flaw, but,
> somehow, the whole sounds less than its parts.
> I have lost either my speakers or the sound card, so I cannot watch the
> video.  The computer mavin will be here on Tuesday, and we'll see.
> Cheers
> Cheers
>
> On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 20:15, <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems that if one wishes to see a bit of controversy on djml, then all
>> you have to do is mention the name “The Dukes of Dixieland”.  Of course,
>> I’m referring to the original band which had a lot to do with my early days
>> of listening to Jazz.  I just can not see how anyone could deem this
>> version, for example, of “Over The Waves” as being anything but great, hot,
>> driving jazz, but as soon as some hear the name of the band, they
>> immediately conjure up commercialism, etc., and don’t want to go any
>> further.  Very curious!  Anyway, have a listen:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwZdT9GUhIk
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok, Freddy does his “popping trombone” thing maybe a chorus or two too
>> much here, but he does it like no one else I’ve ever heard, and it is very
>> effective.  Papa is better on the banjo than the trombone, but the two
>> horns together work really nicely always.  And, yes, it is quite arranged,
>> but one would expect that if doing a tv show.
>>
>>
>>
>> I heard them live in a small, off the casino floor, lounge in Las Vegas
>> in the early 1960’s.  Loved the fact that they went from string bass to
>> tuba depending on the style of the song (swing/march), and they played as
>> though it was a full house, and we were only two people in the lounge the
>> whole set (it was only 6pm!)  A great, professional, swinging band, who
>> just happened to be well-known, also (which isn’t really a bad thing!).
>>
>>
>>
>> Just to put out a good word again for some good memories!
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim
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