<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4">Jim (c: DJML)--</font><div><font size="4"> Yes, i've seen that video before, but it's always nice to hear it again. It was never possible for me to see the Dukes perform live, but i think i saw them on TV a few fimes (probably on the Ed Sullivan Show). </font></div><div><font size="4"> I still think that Freddy's style of playing trombone is one of the most recognizable and unique sounds in jazz trombone. Offhand i can't think of any player(s) before OR after him who i've heard do similar things. And of course Frank was greatly underrated as a trumpet soloist and stylist, and i always liked his singing also.</font></div><div><font size="4"> There are many videos on YouTube of the Dukes on various TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s, most of which i've seen and even downloaded. And of course i started collecting Dukes' recordngs in the mid-1950s. The original Dukes' website </font><a href="https://realdukes.assuntodukestribute.com/discography.html">https://realdukes.assuntodukestribute.com/discography.html</a></div><div>has a good discography of recordings, and it used also to have a list of videos, which i can't find there now.</div><div> 'Tis a pity, Jim, that you and i never met, but outr paths have unknowingly crossed a number of times. You were in Southern California in the 1950s-1960s when i was in high school and college in Carson City and Reno, and your stint in the March AFB Band preceded mine by a few years. Miraculously enough, here in Austin i've also met and played with a couple of guys who were also in the March band before or after me -- Gary Sapp (whom i met in the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble) and Kent Dugan (we play together in the Austin Polka Band). Small world!</div><div> I'm still honking away on the tuba at age 82, in both dixie and polka bands (for pay), for both of which i've written a number of arrangements (some published). On June 8th i've got to play a concert with the Silver Creek Jazz Band at an Austin Traditional Jazz Society concert, and we're doing a few new tunes. I'm trying to finish an arrangement (or lead sheet) for the great (but very infrequently played) song "Candy Lips", which has a short tuba solo (originally played by Cyrus St. Clair, and later by the great Bob Rann). Should be fun. </div><div> Keep swingin'!</div><div><br></div><div> Dan<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><font size="4">-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></font><div><font size="4">On May 22, 2025, at 4:15 AM, jim@kashprod.com wrote:</font></div><font size="4"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgoLM1BvIc" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgoLM1BvIc</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> 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></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><font size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">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></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><font size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">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! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><font size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">Cheers, Jim Kashishian<o:p></o:p></font></span></div></div><font size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; 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