<html><head><style>body{font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">The Dukes were fully immersed in the lineage of New Orleans music. They were a family band - the Assuntos - Freddie -trumpet, Frank - trombone & Papa Jac - trombone/banjo. Singer, Betty Owens, was Freddie’s wife.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">They coalesced the classic/modern standard for a huge portion of the repertoire. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Their 2nd version of “Farewell Blues” is a masterpiece - with two trombones in the front-line - everything comes together: arrangement, solos, dynamics, dramatic progression. Don’t miss the way Lowell Miller alternates between tuba (2-beat) and string bass (walking)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F44WihqrzL4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F44WihqrzL4</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Note: the above version is not documented in the discographies and was used for the stereo re-mix, thus replacing the 1st version. Jerry Fuller is on clarinet & Red Hawley on drums. probably recorded in 1960.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">The whole original album (1956), with the lesser 1st version of “Farewell Blues”, is here - Harold Cooper on clarinet, Bill Porter on string bass & Johnny Edwards on drums. Pianist, Stanley Mendelssohn is on both versions:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYWw9TkwGA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYWw9TkwGA</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Palatino,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">The Dukes were a great band and their success - like that of Brubeck & The Modern Jazz Quartet - made them targets for some critics whose aim was mistaken.</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1535694580296345088" class="bloop_sign"><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Palatino;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman">Cheers,</span></div><div style="font-family:Palatino;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman">Andrew</span></div></div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:05:44 AM, Jim Kashishian (<a href="mailto:jim@kashprod.com">jim@kashprod.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<div dir="auto">Hi, Gene and all. Your short bio caught my
eye because of your mention of the Dukes. Although I began
listening to Turk, et al, in the mid 1950s, I soon got interested
in the Dukes. Something, by the way, that is not always
accepted as being a good thing in Jazz circles, and even on this
list. To this day, I maintain that, even though they became a
a success (for some reason that is not acceptable!), they did play
some hot jazz. I heard them in a casino lounge in Las Vegas
in about 1963. A basically empty room, and they played as
though it were a full house! A lesson that I have carried
with me through my whole musical life. Hats off to the
Dukes! (Now I'll duck in case of flying objects!!)<br>
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<div dir="auto">Oh, I continued to listen to Turk, and many, many
others, but was drawn to the Dukes possibly because my trombone
style was closer to the style of the Dukes. <br>
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<div dir="auto">Jim<br>
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