DUKES OF DIXIELAND HTF '75 LP DUKE'S PLACE AUTOGRAPH X6

DUKES OF DIXIELAND DUKE'S PLACE LPCategory / Style / Moods: Jazz 19.77 / S asocc1975 LPTITLE: DUKE'S PLACEARTIST: DUKES OF DIXIELANDCONDITIONVINYL: VGCOVER: VGClick here for info on grading and abbreviationsSCARCE ORIGINAL OUT OF PRINT PRESS AUTOGRAPHED IN PEN BY ALL 6!Click the pix for a better view TRACKS: Disc: 11. At Dukes' Place 2. Darktown Strutters Ball 3. Lullaby in Dixieland 4. Ragtime at Dukes' Place 5. Vodka and Tonic 6.SWANEE 7. JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE 8. HEY, JUDE 9. BOURBON STREET PARADE 10. SOHO In February of ‘75 the Dukes flew to New York City to record the “Dukes Place” album at Sound-Tek and Le Studio. Tom Morgan, former A&R director at Capitol and Decca Records, produced the album. He is credited with discovering and producing Nancy Wilson. He also produced Al Martino (“Spanish Eyes”), Nat “King” Cole, Bobby Darrin, and the Four Freshmen. Herb Bernstein, who had written and arranged for The Fifth Dimension (“Bill”) and Tony Orlando and Dawn (“Knock Three Times”) arranged the album. It was mastered at SeaSaint Studios in New Orleans. Back in late 1974, John Shoup, a television producer for PBS and later The Discovery Channel who has also managed and produced many artists, flew out to Las Vegas to meet with musician/singer Louis Prima at Prima’s golf course. Shoup wanted Prima’s permission to take over his lease at the Monteleone Hotel’s rooftop nightclub in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Two months later, on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1974, Shoup opened “Dukes’ Place” atop the Monteleone. It featured the home of the newest ensemble of The DUKES of Dixieland, with Connie Jones as leader. In the summer of 1975, the DUKES performed outdoors with the Grant Park Pops Orchestra in Chicago. Henry Brandon (who wrote the music for the Oscar Mayer commercial, “Oh I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener”), conducted the orchestra and wrote several symphony charts for the DUKES to perform. That was the beginning of 30 years of performing with symphonies like the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Chicago, Indianapolis, Maryland, Florida, Grand Rapids, and Syracuse Orchestras, as well as with Skitch Henderson and The New York Pops. Erich Kunzel, Doc Severinsen, and Peter Nero have also conducted the DUKES with their respective orchestras. In the summer of 1976 they traveled throughout France for the U.S. Bicentennial Celebrations. In later years, they have worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia and have opened performing arts centers in Turkey, Ecuador, Peru, and Japan. The DUKES have performed from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, to Chautauqua in New York, Ravinia in Chicago, and Wolf Trap in Virginia. From hundreds of colleges to music and jazz festivals around the world, the DUKES have played them all. They played the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and have performed there every year since then. They traveled to the Espoo Jazz Festival in Helsinki, Finland, and to the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City. In 1984, after three years of construction, the DUKES opened their jazz club at 309 Bourbon Street called “Lulu White’s Mahogany Hall.” They hosted Super Bowl parties, concerts with Woody Herman, and shot several television shows, including Toots Thielemans, Irma Thomas, and A Salute to Jelly Roll Morton. By 1991, their lease was up and they accepted an offer to make their home base aboard the Steamboat Natchez. They have been performing nightly for the dinner cruises on the Natchez ever since. This exquisite piece of retro music history is a vinyl sound recording (not a CD). Please visit the A Sound Deal store for similar items and information on grading and shipping. Add me to your favorites for red hot sales bulletins and sneak previews of upcoming products. Combine Items to Save $$$! Click here to check the store for more!©A Sound Deal