Posted by js on June 07, 2002 at 07:15:33:
In Reply to: Dixieland posted by Sir-C on June 07, 2002 at 02:09:21:
If "straight ahead" to you means just a little bit more palatable to modern ears, see if you can find the (fairly rare these days) recordings that Rich Matteson did on helicon with the original Dukes of Dixieland. I believe just about all he did with them was one album that was very special: Louis Armstrong teamed up with the Dukes.
Rich played some outstanding lines for dixie, yet they were very smooth - as a modern bassist would insist upon.