The Home of David Band (20).

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17 Mins.  Full Stage. To get the right slant at long distance on The House of David Band, just visualize a roomful of bearded ladies. That’s what these 20 male musicians from Benton Harbor, Mich., look like. They have their hair hanging down their backs, hair on their faces and the program says they have never visited a barber… New York looks too big for them unless they ballyhoo around the city. All required would be to walk Broadway with a sign reading: “At the Palace this week.” The music runs to brasses. But two or three reed instruments. One of the cornetists sounded regular, likewise a trombonist. Their musical scheme is to take slow time at the start of a piece, hitting up the tempo toward the centre and finishing forte. It’s a good scheme. The music is mostly rag, giving enough swing but with too much similarity and not enough latest tunes. No, they did not play “Dardanella.”

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