[Dixielandjazz] Cow Cow Davenport

[steven holzer]

I'd suggest the jazz museum at Tulane or the Jazz Institute at Rutgers.
He might also contact John Hasse at the Smithsonian.

Steve Holzer

John Farrell wrote:
> 
> Anybody interested in this material (the message appeared on another email
> list to which I belong)? It is a little too earthy for my taste.
> 
> Here are the details :
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Stevramm@aol.com>
> To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:12 PM
> Subject: Looking for home for Private recordings of Cow Cow Davenport
> 
> > A reader of my column in "In The Groove" wrote to me this week asking for
> > help.
> >
> > He is looking for a "proper archival home for a reel-to-reel tape (he)
> made
> > from older material in 1971."
> >
> > "It consists of 12 private recordings mostly (or all) of the 1948-50 era
> by
> > "Cow Cow" Davenport, his wife Peggy Davenport and their friend Jack Elton.
> > Peggy was a vaudevillian. "Cow Cow" is described in a 1949 article as a
> > 'throwback to the cro-magnon era of jazz.'".
> >
> > He continues " I would like to see my tape archived for future reference
> > rather than just disappear after I am gone."
> >
> > He enclosed a list which I have scanned and posted at:
> > http://members.aol.com/stevramm/cowcow.jpg
> >
> > If any archive has an interest in this collection, please email me at the
> > FOLLOWING address:  Stevenramm@aol.com and I will pass on your replied to
> > this reader. I will wait until 7/27 before forwarding the info. (He does
> not
> > have email.)
> >
> > Steve Ramm
> 
> John Farrell
> stridepiano@tesco.net
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
> 
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