Dukes of Dixieland

Timeless, The Classic Collection available now!

Timeless, The Classic Collection is a four CD set that contains 4 hours of music and 58 tunes from 16 albums recorded over the past 32 years, 1974 to 2006. It includes a FREE 20-page color discography of every album, when it was recorded and why, where and when, and who was performing with the DUKES at that time. It includes all the vocalists (Julie Budd, George French, Danny Barker, Moses Hogan, The New Orleans Gospel Choir, Phamous Lambert and Luther Kent). All the tunes were remastered and digitalized. It shows the variety of the DUKES styles whether it be traditional jazz, of which they are the best in, or blues, gospel, swing and pop.

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Here's to 32 Great Years!

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.