In an article about jazz in the Twin Cities, written for Select Magazine in 1960, Leigh Kamman wrote:

According to Alan Doerr, “A red hot band from Chicago that called itself the New Orleans Rhythm Kings came to play in the Twin Cities around 32 years ago.  In four years its members had become tops in new era of revival Dixieland.  They played at the Marigold Ballroom in Minneapolis.  When they departed they left a whole generation of young Minnesota musicians flushed with jazz fever.  Their converts remained, keeping jazz alive through the depression and war years when it all but died in most other parts of the country.”