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About Dixie Doodlers
 Dixie Doodlers may be a funny name for a top rated 1920s style Dixieland Jazz Band whose musicians strive for perfection to create music with bright melody, awesome harmony and energetic rhythm. There's no doodling around when the Dixie Doodlers perform, work, record or practice. Their weekly rehearsals include learning new tunes and reviewing their incredibly huge repertoire of 546 tunes. You could say they doodle with jazz styles, but only their band name has Doodlers in it.
 They can perform on the main stage, in the background, at a street setting, roving around, or for Dixieland funerals in cemeteries. They have multi-instrument talented musicians who love to entertain, vocalists who sing many tunes by heart, kazoo musicians and even a recorder player. Dixie Doodlers' musicians also perform in other musical groups from restaurant bands to classical ensembles, jazz groups to theatrical pit orchestras.
 Enjoy a musical program at your anniversary, birthday, ceremony, concert, corporate gathering, dance, dinner, event, festival, mall, parade, party, picnic, special occasion or wedding. Keep Dixieland Music Alive. Reasonable rates. Please hire the Dixie Doodlers - Mark Kranz, 262-679-9475, New Berlin, Wisconsin.
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Per Your Request - Meet the Doodlers
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- Mahogany Hall Stomp 4:13
- Sidewalk Blues 5:30
- Coney Island Washboard 5:23
- Dixie Doodler Stomp 2:36
- Big Lip Blues 4:40
- Tia Juana 5:50
- Hot Tamale Man 5:44
- Louisiana Fairytale 3:25
- Chattanooga Stomp 6:05
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- Ma - She's Making Eyes at Me 4:30
- Mandy Make Up Your Mind 5:53
- New Orleans Shuffle 5:19
- Take My Hand Precious Lord 3:27
- San 4:23
- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down 5:26
- Take Your Tomorrow 6:39
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 One hour and 19 minutes of Dixie Doodler music.
Buy this CD online for only $18, includes domestic Shipping and Handling.
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Greg Kalkhoff works to record, mix and master tunes. CDs have been bought by Dixieland lovers in Germany and Slovakia! Here are a few unmixed samples.
- Kansas City Kitty, Walter Donaldson - 1929 in G. Popularized by Rudy Vallee. Some sections have six or seven sharps for trumpets and clarinet. Andy and Gary take dueling solos on trumpets. Time 4 minutes (MP3, 5.6 Megabytes)
- Mahogany Hall Stomp, Spencer Williams - 1929 in Eb. Named for Madam Lulu White's "Mahogany Hall," one of the finest bordellos in Storyville. Time 4 minutes and 23 seconds (MP3, 6.2 Megabytes)
- New Orleans Shuffle, Whitmore - 1920s in Ab. Recorded by Bob Wilber's Wildcats 1948 and the Titan Hot Five 1996. (MP3, 5.0 Megabytes)
- San, McPhail and Michels - 1920 in F. Time 4 minutes, 25 seconds (MP3, 4.1 Megabytes)
- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down, Howard Quicksell and Ray Lodwig - 1927 in Bb. Quicksell was banjoist with Jean Goldkette Orchestra, Beiderbecke, Trumbauer, etc. Also wrote Sorry. Lodwig played trumpet on some of Bix's sessions c. 1930, such as I'll Be A Friend With Pleasure. Recorded by Bix Beiderbecke 1927, Pee Wee Russell, Gene Krupa 1938, Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (Sy Oliver arr.) 1934, etc. (MP3, 5.0 Megabytes)
- Take Your Tomorrow, J. C. Johnson and Andy Razaf - 1928 in F. Recorded by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra (Bix, Lang, Bargy, etc. Vocal: Trumbauer and possibly Austin Young) 1928. (MP3, 6.1 Megabytes)
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CD Recording Session
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 Photographs show the Dixie Doodlers on September 29, 2008, between recording tunes for their second CD. There are 8 microphones. Front Row: Rich Regent, clarinet; Gary Lavann, trumpet; Andy Schumm, cornet; Dave Bock, trombone; Back Row: John Knurr, piano; Mark Kranz, tuba; Ken Olson, banjo. Jack Clark, washboard, is in a different part of the studio for better sound separation.
 This is a 1/2-inch, 15-inches per second, Tape Recorder with 8-Channel Mixer. Greg Kalkhoff operates the controls during recording. Next, tunes are selected, then the audio is processed by computer, and finally the master recording is used to make the CD.
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 Gary Lavann, trumpet. Began music with accordion, clarinet and trombone; plays trumpet and cornet since 1954. Plays Dixieland at Potawatomi. Directed the Milwaukee Letter Carrier's Band for many years. Army Veteran. Mukwonago.
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 Rich Regent, clarinet. Plays clarinet since 1954, enjoys Dixieland, jazz and classical music with a variety of bands, theatrical groups and ensembles. Restores old radios. Web Site. Master of Science in Physics from UWM, Licensed Professional Engineer, Army Veteran. Greenfield.
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 John Knurr, piano, tuba, trombone and vocals. Plays with New Rampart Street Paraders. Retired HS Music Teacher, historian and musician's musician. Biography. Master of Arts in Music from California State University. Milwaukee.
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 Mark Kranz, tuba. Dixie Doodler Founder and Manager, plays in the Milwaukee Letter Carrier's Band, Brookfield Community Band and others. Collects old records, cylinders, radios and Victrolas. Machinist. New Berlin.
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 Jack Clark, washboard and various musical gadjets. Began playing trumpet in 1948, also French Horn and drums. Plays Dixieland with several other groups. Biography. Former grain elevator supervisor, Army Veteran. Franklin.
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 Dave Bock, trombone, tuba, trumpet and piano. Awarded 2004 Jazz Unlimited Scholarship and WCM Jazz Camp Award. Plays in Bix Beiderbecke concerts, Rhythm Aces, West End Jazz Band, collects 78 RPM records and is a Jazz Historian. Biography. Web Site. Mukwonago.
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 Andy Schumm, trumpet, piano, saxophone, banjo and drums. Professional musician, teaches at music camps. Plays with Rhythm Aces, West End Jazz Band and does extensive travel including to the Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks in New York. Bachelor of Music from University of Illinois. Web Site. Milwaukee.
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 Ken Olson, banjo and vocals. Retired Muskego HS Music Teacher and directing music for 35 years. Clarinetist with the Palmyra-Eagle Community Band. Master of Music Education from University of Illinois Champaign. Eagle.
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Interesting Doodlers Facts
- Awarded 3rd Place in 2009 Muskego Fest Parade.
- Played two programs for 2009 Bunny Berigan Jazz Jubilee at Fox Lake.
- Played for 2009 July 4th Brookfield Parade; we met Fox6 Celebrities Tom Pippins (2008); Beverly Taylor (2007); Brad Hicks (2006).
- Played on August 19, 2007, for the political congressional rally of Jim Burkee and Jeff Walz at the American Legion in Cedarburg. Was on TV 6 and 58.
- Greendale Gazebo Dixieland Program on June 30, 2007, for an audience of 500.
- The Madison Jazz Society enjoyed our program on March 25, 2007. Here is their letter.
- Caribbean Beulah Brunch 3 hours on July 9, 2006.
- Bix Fest 2006 on March 11, 2006, at the Racine Marriott, and released our CD. WLIP-AM (1050 Kenosha) broadcast the program live. Photo 1, Photo 2.
- Read the Dixie Doodlers newspaper article written by staff writer John Schultz with photographs by Bob Bailie, in the New Berlin Citizen and Frankln Hub, December 8, 2005, editions. Also an article and photographs of our Fall In to Art Festival music in Thiensville on September 9, 2006.
- Three Dixie Doodlers have Masters Degrees, another has a Bachelor of Music degree, two are retired High School Music Teachers, and three are Army Veterans.
- Gary Lavann and Rich Regent were in the Walker Junior High School Band with Henry Canitz. Photograph taken May 3, 1956. Rich, clarinet, is on riser 2nd from left. Gary, trumpet, has blond hair.
- We can play over 546 tunes in The Firehouse Jazz Band Dixieland style. But especially enjoy these 244 tunes. One lady in an audience, requested the Just Because Polka followed by Happy Birthday, which is not on our list. But we capably played both with delight.
- Dixieland music is a style of instrumental jazz associated with New Orleans, characterized by a relatively fast two-beat rhythm, and played as a group and by solo improvisations.
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