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"Playing hot, Dixieland jazz since 1998, Doctor Dubious augments our core group with several top musicians from the New York metro area on call who have their musical roots in the Hot Jazz and Swing styles of the '20's and '30's. Here is a brief introduction to who we are —
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Tom Duncan* is Doctor Dubious and plays clarinet as well as alto and C melody saxophones to lead the group. You can even coax a raucous vocal or two out of him, such as instructions on how to "Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" or the sad refrain, "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It". Tom started playing Dixieland jazz in high school in Cleveland, Ohio and then had a long lay-off, but participation in jazz camps finally jump started more activity in playing and leading. The band grew out of a group of jamming friends and has coalesced as a working and, we hope, entertaining band. |
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Bart Bartholomew*, on cornet is a music professor at New York’s Yeshiva University, a composer who combines a family musical tradition with his knowledge of jazz history and major league chops to play the old tunes with a new interpretation. |
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Karen Bartholomew*, is a music educator, jazz vocalist and composer who lends her keyboard and vocal skills to Dr. Dubious’ hot jazz. She and Bart are Nebraskans and met at the University of Nebraska. Partnership in marriage enhances their musical partnership. |
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Herbert Baier*, doubles on banjo and guitar and joined the group after a chance meeting with Dr. Dubious at a jazz festival. He played in Germany as a youth with the Royal Garden Jazz Band. He has revived his interest in traditional jazz banjo; his chops are back and he adds a strong element to our rhythm section. |
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Johnathon Steenstra anchors our rhythm section with his driving bass sax playing (yes, that's what that giant horn is called) and doubles on string bass, clarinet and the very rare and even more giant contrabass saxophone (There are less than twenty five of these big horns in the world.) |
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Chase Acito is a trombonist right in the Doctor’s groove. He also sings and may take us to Basin Street or join with Tom in the sad tale of St. James Infirmary. Chase is also a dancer and may be recognized as an actor on “Law and Order” and other TV shows |
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Other frequent contributors to the Dubious sound are Dick Dreiwitz who began playing in the early 1950's and has learned from and worked with such legends as Willie The Lion Smith, Lee Blair, Zutty Singleton, and Herb Hall. Dick and his tuba-playing wife Barbara who also performs with us have been active in the NYC traditional jazz scene since the ‘60’s and are original---twenty-seven year---members of the Woody Allen "New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra", the regular Monday night attraction, for its entire run of twenty-four and a half years at Michael's Pub in New York City. Barbara Dreiwitz has the singular distinction of being the only female tuba player active in the field of classic jazz in the Western Hemisphere and has performed and toured and graced many traditional jazz ensembles in addition to ours. Russ DiBona is Jersey-based and jazz-friendly on drums. From traditional hot jazz ala Doctor Dubious to swing to rock and blues and mainstream jazz, Russ is the time master of them all. Don Robertson, who also appears with several Dixie and Big bands in North Jersey, frequently contributes with his swing and Dixie drum skills.
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