Breakin' It Up On Broadway - The Dukes Of Dixieland

 

Runnin' Wild

Breakin' It Up On Broadway

The Dukes Of Dixieland

Produced by John Hammond

Cover Photo: Columbia Records Photo Studio - Henry Parker

Columbia Records CL 1728

1962

From the back cover: The Dukes cannot be pigeonholed. They're now appreciated by young people (some of the young hipsters are coming around!) and even by the most critical group, fellow jazz musicians. "For the past few years," says Delaney, "the boys have played jazz festivals and they've had to make the audience swing whether they came to hear Basie of Miles or Kenton!"

But their most enthusiastic fans are in the older generation, and Delaney thinks that Papa Jac is largely responsible, "Dad was near 50 when he played outside of New Orleans for the first time. The boys were working in Chicago without him. Freddie's wife, Betty, who had been singing with the band, became pregnant, and so we sent for Papa Jac to replace her temporarily as the special attraction. People love watching him work sitting up there with his two sons."

The performances on this album, the Duke's first for Columbia, present the group at the peak of their twelve-year career. Freddie organized the group in 1949; among its early members was Pete Fountain. The Dukes won a Horace Heidt audition, toured for awhile, then returned to New Orleans and replaced Sharkey Bonano's band at the Famous Door for 44 months. (Santo Pecora, Bonano's trombonist, was one of Freddie Assunto's idols.) Meanwhile, Papa Jac Assunto, who holds a degree in business administration from Tulane University, was teaching and directing the band at Redemption High School. He joined the group when he received the call for help from Chicago, and he's been touring ever since.

Runnin' Wild

Old Fashioned Love

How Are Things In Glocca Morra

Oh, Lady Be Good

Ain't Misbehavin'

Hey, Look Me Over

The New Ashmolean Marching Society And Students Conservatory Band

Lida Rose

If I Were A Bell

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

For This Moment On

Adrift On A Star