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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgoLM1BvIc"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgoLM1BvIc</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> A video of the Dukes I’ve never seen. Excellent, especially the bit of Weary Blues at the end. I remember how the “purists” of Dixieland at the time put the band down as being “too commercial”, due to their nationwide success on their Audiophile recordings that were used in every shop promoting STEREO record players in the late 50’s. It was really just envy, of course, as the band proves here with great, great swing. And, Freddy, with his “popping trombone”. Not an easy figure to play, if anyone else has tried it! Still, to this very day, I play Blue Prelude, and stay very close to Freddy’s version which I learned note per note in 1959.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I heard the Dukes live in Las Vegas in 1963. It was in a lounge at a casino at about 6pm. Only a couple of folks in the lounge to hear them, and they played exactly like it was a packed house! That was a lesson I have continued to use at every gig we play. Play to enjoy the music, and play as it is a packed joint, no matter what!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>By the way, I was recently in Seal Beach, California attending a family wedding (a grandson!), and tried to recall which of the shop windows I played in on Main Street. I know it was several doors up from Clancy’s bar, which is still there, but the shop I thought it was in has a front window which is too small for the 6 piece (Vince Saunder’s) South Frisco Jazz Band. I think it might have been 3 doors up from Clancy’s, which now has a converted front to the place. In 1959, it was a Coffee House in the style of the Beatniks of the day, and while other Coffee Houses had a bassist & someone reading poetry, the Rouge Et Noir had a full blown Dixieland band! We played there for about 2 yrs (3 nights a week) before heading off to Costa Mesa at the Honeybucket bar. I was promptly thrown out of the bar for being underage, and joined the Air Force Bands at March Air Force Base in 1961, before being sent to Torrejon Air Base in Madrid. To cut a long story short, Madrid is where I still am, and I’m still honking! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cheers, Jim Kashishian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>