[Dixielandjazz] FW: Bill Bacin

[Hans Koert]

I remember to have met Bill Bacin once - it's a little story.

First some start information: You should know that I live in the south-west
part of the Netherlands. It must have been somewhere in the late 1970s. My
jazz-collectors activities were limited to LPs and some card board 78rpm Hit
of the weeks  happed to found on flea-markets and my information came from
those narrow printed auction lists  that came from the US on thin yellow or
red paper. I asked for them by post to every address I found overseas.

One of the major jazz festivals those days was the Oude Stijl Jazz Festival
in Breda and one year my wife and I, my brother and his girl-friend should
visit the night concert. I don't know anymore how late it started, but, of
course, we were much too early in Breda. We went to the bar of the
Turfschip, the location were the festival was held and drunk a beer to kill
time. More visitors of the festival came in - also a very excited
'American-looking" guy sat at the bar "with a lot of noise" and one of the
first things he screamed to me "You're going to give me a beer". I said, "No
I guess not". He calmed down and after ten minutes he said to me: "May I ask
you something. You're from the Netherlands?" I confirmed. "I'm looking for a
guy named Hans Koert, he lives ....... " and the guy rattled my complete
address including postal zipp code. I was very amazed. Did he peeped on my
address somewhere on a paper I lost and he found on the ground or something?
I said "Yes, I know that guy - it's me" . He repleid, that he knew that
Holland was small and that he would meet me here. His bag opened and an
envelope with some thin yellow or red narrow printed auction lists came out
including a small tape recorder. He entered a message in the recorder, that
he delivered the envelope to Hans Koert. This man was Bill Bacin and he got
what he had asked for ...... a beer !!

On my turntable now: Harry James

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

HIT OF THE WEEK-DURIUM Project
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----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Aan: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Verzonden: vrijdag 27 juni 2003 0:43
Onderwerp: [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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