Description: Duke's Shakedown - We play music from the 20's through the 60's with an emphasis on jazz and great composers like Ellington, Gershwin and Berlin. Our sets also include early rock and roll and classic blues and soul.
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W elcome to D uke’s S hakedown.
We are an acoustic style trio composed of piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar and harmonica, and we have been told that we are the perfect reception/cocktail party combo. We play music from the 20's through the 60's, with an emphasis on jazz and great composers like Duke Ellington, Gershwin, and Berlin. Our sets also include early rock and roll and classic blues and soul of the 50's and 60's, with a classic rock song of the 60's thrown in just to keep things off balance. We occasionally write our own music
It's late on a warm summer night in 1958. The moon is up and your glass is full. Someone turns on the AM radio and the low cool swinging sound floats across the dimly lit room. You notice a couple getting up to dance. The music and the lyrics are speaking to you now. You sink back in your chair,take a long drink, and close your eyes...