<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/17/2003 7:33:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Anybody got an input or suggestions as to how they play, or what songs<BR>
we might play opposite them? Or as to whether they will play N. O. <BR>
Marching or Funeral songs etc. We have no input as yet from the Festival<BR>
on song choices and think we should probably stick with stuff from the<BR>
Condon book and keep far away from our New Orleans repertoire. Thus<BR>
presenting a varied musical program for the attendees.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Impossible to put a label on them. I saw them a few years ago. Dirty Dozen is quite a hot group, a real crowd pleaser. The players are all very accomplished. Bebop, rock, a few vocals, Tower of Power, some street music suitable for Jackson Square in N. O, some chanting, very little trad. It was an all black group with a gritty style. They had a sax player who played alto and tenor at the same time for a novelty feature. The sousaphone did long tones four beat; his lines are walking bass style. The rhythm section is high-energy ahead of the beat all the time. I never heard anything like it before or since. I'd gladly pay good money to see them again. Anything any of us play is in contrast to their routine.<BR>
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Tom Loeb<BR>
Riverside CA
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