Best Dixie

[sailn2ba]

Tubawise, What are opinions on the best dixieland CD?

[Dan Schultz]

Anything by Red Lehr. His bands have had various names like Mississippi Jazz Ramblers and Riverboat Ramblers (or something like that). He's in the St. Louis area.

[scottw]

If you can find old albums of Gene Mayl and the Dixieland Rhythm Kings [Riverside Records], you will hear some excellent tuba playing. He played[plays?]string bass in his latter years, but tuba was his thing. My favorite album was "DRK's at the HiFi Ball", but I wore it out and can't find another recording

[tubacrow]

I second Red Lehr.

[David Richoux]

First response = Anything by Singleton Palmer! He was both a bandleader and one of the best Dixie tubists I have ever heard.

However, a lot of other possible responses depend on what you mean by "Dixie" - it is such a vague term to describe well over 100 years worth of Jazz (also worthy of tighter definitions )

If you are thinking "Traditional Jazz that was played in New Orleans in the 1890's to 1920's" or "Jazz from Chicago or New York in the 1920's" or "Bands from the 1950's to current playing stock versions of those early New Orleans, New York and Chicago Jazz bands while wearing red and white stripe vests and straw hats in the 1950's," or "Bands that studied the early recordings and recreated the traditional styles, like Lu Watters, Turk Murphy, etc." or so many other variations on this probably 70 year debate, well - that is what is been summed up as "Dixie Jazz..."

Just ask me about "Traditional Jazz!"