[Dixielandjazz] People I miss.

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon wrote:

> Frank Powers:  who died with a stack of Turk Murphy LPs on his piano 
> waiting to be digitised for me, pending his beginning to feel better 
> from the diabetes that very soon thereafter took him from us.
>
> Bob Helm:  who, in 2002, died, hopefully, having already seen my 
> personal letter, including a photocopy of a snapshot taken of the two 
> of us in 1997, at which meeting he recalled having said to me the year 
> before that he would provide me an autographed photo (point being: a 
> rock-solid memory).
>
> Dixie Teel:  a short-time member of DJML, who loved every minute of 
> it, but who by at least late-2002 disappeared from the list, and mail 
> sent directly to her came back labelled "MOVED".  I learned of this 
> state of affairs by my trying to send back to her some CDs she had 
> loaned to me previously.  Today, I "own" these CDs, as an 
> unintentional memoir of her.  That, and the most precious fact that my 
> pristine copy of *Turk Murphy: Just for the Record* was a flat-out 
> gift from her to me.
>
> Please pardon the deliberate sentimentality.  I hope that the only 
> person who remembers, publicly, the wonderful thing that DJML's 
> anniversary is, can be forgiven, and am,

I certaibnly would add my old band mate, Jim Beebe, one fo the better 
tailgate players around and a true beliefer in the Turky Murphy approach.
Bless them  all of honored memory. Yes, the list has been a joyful ride 
since Saint Peter's idea took hold.
Don Ingle