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Here's a hyper specific one: does anyone have any suggestions for good records by the established Dixieland / classic jazz / trad bands that used to play the traditional jazz festival circuit in the 1980s-90s, pumping out music in their competing micro-niches. I'm thinking of bands like the Black Eagles. 

Fully anticipating crickets on this one, but if anyone has any that they feel like suggesting I'd welcome them. 

Edit: I don't think I have asked this before but there's a prospect that I might have done. I have checked but can't find. 

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One album that I like quite a bit and that almost fits the bill is Echoes of Chicago by Art Hodes... It's from 1978 though and it's not Hodes' working band (it is a full dixieland band though, the usual Atlanta crew found on GHB Productions of that era)

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Thanks, I will listen to that one. I love Hodes.

I'm looking for slightly less A list bands: Those groups of portly men who were born in the 1940s and by the 1980s were playing the dixieland festival circuit in straw hats and stained stripey shirts, selling CDs at the merch table, and arguing about whether or not Eddie Condon should even be considered jazz, with beer foam on their beards.

I'm making this all up, but hopefully you get the drift. Some of that music is quite good in its way and I enjoy it. 

I don't know how many fans of that sort of music are on this forum, but thought it was worthwhile asking. As always, the 1980s - 1990s is a hard area to research via the internet, and trad / classic jazz more difficult than others. 

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