[Dixielandjazz] FW: Bill Bacin

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Bill,

I see this e-mail signed by Carol Wells.

As I remember, she moved back east a year or 2 ago & disappeared.

Does anyone know what happened to the Wells'?

Bob
mr.wonderful at ringwald.com
 From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] FW: Bill Bacin


> Dear Bob and friends,
> This was posted to the DJML on 15 Jan 2001.
> Bill came to Australia on several occasions and became a dear mate.
> A real jazz character and one I will remember forever.
> Or until 'oldtimers' gets me.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
> PS: I was a contributor to the billboard fund mention below. He got a
great kick
> out of it.
> PPS: There should be a few Bacin stories in the DJML 'archives' which were
> posted at this time.
> I kept some of them.
>
> BILL BACIN
>
> Bill Bacin, founder of the New Orleans Jazz Club of California (NOJCC),
died on
> January 13, 2001 at his home in Kerrville, Texas after a short illness.
>
> The NOJCC was intended as a club that would never meet.  Rather, through
The
> Jazzologist,  it would promote live paid jazz.  Bill published The
Jazzologist,
> a quarterly  publication, for 20 years.  Upon it's retirement 120 of his
friends
> purchased  the largest  size billboard available along Bill's favorite
route in
> Kerrville.  It said:
> STOV FOR NOJCC
> DYKWIMTM BILL BACIN
>
> It was written up in the Kerrville  Daily Times.   They reported  the
largest
> sales  in  the history of the paper.  Bill had purchased 120 to send
> "Thankyou's" to  his  friends.
>
>  He covered jazz festivals throughout the U.S. as well as in several other
> countries, promoting the jazz as well as the musicians.
>
> Bill was a judge in 1986 at the Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee when an All
Star
> Band was picked.
>
> A quote from The Jazzologist when Bill wrote about the loss of a musician
or
> friend of jazz....
> G'nite Bill
>
> Joe & Carole Wells
>
>
>
>
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