Billy Dean digs the leader (banjoist) of our jazz band

[bloke]

When the break-up occurred (decades ago) of the jazz band with which I used to tour (and this banjo-man was also a member) he stepped right up and formed a new band, The Beale Street Jazz Band - with which I've been playing.

Somehow - several years ago, he and Billy Dean hooked up, Billy Dean really digs him (Dan Wilkinson) and Dan actually TOURS with Billy Dean.

I was at Dan's 80th birthday party (huge blow-out in a big/popular restaurant). Billy Dean came and entertained everyone.

Here's video of the two of them teaching each other some songs - from each others' comfort-zone repertoires.

If you would "like" our band's page, that would be nice.
(I believe I'm the youngest person in the band...and I'm not "young".)
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This is off-topic, but two of the (yep) LP's that I recorded with that PREVIOUS (defunct) band (on one of George Buck's old NOLA Jazzology labels) are on youtube.
Look for Hot Cotton Jazz Band tracks SPECIFICALLY with these two LP covers...I'm playing bass and tuba on all of those, but I myself left the band after those first two LP's were recorded...They simply accepted too may out-of-town jobs, jazz festival gigs, and ocean cruise gigs...and I was trying to run a music store with Mrs. bloke, so...

[Doc]

I bought that album on eBay. Definitely worth having.

[bloke]

I tried to also link this LP/CD cover, but it was a bad link.

I played tuba on a few tracks on this one, but I played bass on more tracks (on this one) than tuba.

Even though that LP was recorded (actually, in the same recording session at the "Riverboat Shuffle" one) at Ardent Studios on the same afternoon around 1982, only two of those original band members have passed away, and all the rest of them are still playing music...the round-faced/whited-haired guy (cornet player/leader) is now in his 90's and is stinkin'-STINKIN' rich. He was a well-to-do doctor, but his second/current wife (also surely in her 90's) is the one who developed the Jack LaLanne concept (back in the 1950's), and she made a ZILLION bucks off of that thing.

The multi-Grammy-winning recording engineer on that session, John Hampton, (sadly) died (young, at age 61) thirteen years ago...
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