[Dixielandjazz] bio--Charles Suhor

[JimDBB at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/25/2003 3:20:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
csuhor at zebra.net writes:

> I still do those programs plus a few others in semi-retirement in
> Montgomery, Alabama. My first retirement project in 1997 was a book called
> JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS: THE POSTWAR YEARS that tried to set the record
> straight on the much-neglected post-WWII years of my youth. Scarecrow
> Press/Rutgers Jazz Institute published it in  2001. It has done well, with
> only one critic, a jazz purist, slamming it because of my praise for some
> of the Dixieland and traditional New Orleans Jazz artists (especially,
> Sharkey Bonano and Papa Celestin) who sparked the local revival in the late
> forties. You can't win 'em all.

  Amen, Charles Suhor.  Thank god for your interest in Sharkey Bonano, Papa 
Celestin and the others who contributed so much great music to the late 40s-50s 
New Orleans-Dixieland Jazz revival.  Those bands and their wonderrful 
recordings turned me first into a young believer. and from there into a life long 
believer. (* I recently heard some of those long ago records by Sharkey and they 
sounded just great). I don't believe that Sharkey, Celestin, Armand Hug, 
Lester Bouchon, Monk Hazel and so many others have really been artististically 
recognized for what they added to the evolving jazz scene.

 I will look for your book


Jim Beebe