<div dir="ltr"><div>Sure, Jim,</div><div>A controversial band. I have heard all the Dukes' Audiofidelity records and only liked the two with Armstrong.</div><div>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!</div><div>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.</div><div>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.</div><div>Cheers<br></div><div>Cheers<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 20:15, <<a href="mailto:jim@kashprod.com">jim@kashprod.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="ES"><div class="gmail-m_2521815274460397948WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwZdT9GUhIk" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwZdT9GUhIk</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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!).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Just to put out a good word again for some good memories!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jim<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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