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...most consistently popular jazz in the U.S. is played neither by the young men with beards nor by the aging heroes of early jazz mythology. Instead, it is pumped and pounded out by Dixieland outfits-Turk Murphy's Band, the Salt City Six, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band-which draw nostalgic fans to hear new crackling arrangements of old fancies. Last week the Dukes of Dixieland, slickest and most successful of latter-day Dixieland groups, were shaking the walls and the waiters at Manhattan's Roundtable...
...headed by two brothers from New Orleans: Frank and Fred Assunto. Trumpeter Frank, 28, and Trombonist Fred, 30, learned to play from their father, a onetime high school music teacher and now a regular member of the seven-man band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums, all of them...
With the exception of three Dixieland bands, all the competing outfits played modern jazz. But it was the big-band arrangements that seemed most striking, with their complex harmonies, catchy polyrhythms and strong emphasis on melody. Each of the 26 groups had submitted a tape recording before being accepted, played a 20-minute set in the opening sessions of the two-day festival. The ten finalists played additional 20-minute sets the second evening. Tired and a little lightheaded from several rounds of Irish coffee and all that jazz, the judges retired at midnight, quickly made their choices...
After his cross-country tours and the fabulous success of his various recordings of Hot Sugar Blues (which sold more than 5,000,000 disks), he retired wealthy in 1955, was lured back only by the new Dixieland boom...
...boom is everywhere. San Francisco now has Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Kid Ory and Marty Marsala. Chicago has Art Hodes, Bill Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...