[Dixielandjazz] From the Scholarly Side of OKOM

[D and R Hardie]

Hi Everybody.
                          The loss of Dick (Richard Allen) is a great 
one that should not go unnoticed. Don Marquis introduced me to him 
briefly when I was in New Orleans some years back. We owe him a great 
debt if only for the work he did at the Tulane Archive and his 
publications.
regards
Dan Hardie


On Saturday, April 14, 2007, at 10:25  PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:

> List-Message-Recipient: darnhard at ozemail.com.au
> NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Dick Allen, a jazz historian whose scholarly 
> command of
> traditional New Orleans jazz was matched only by his role as a French
> Quarter character, has died. He was 80.
>
> Allen died Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Dublin, Ga., 
> where
> he had been confined to a bed since leaving New Orleans in 2003. His 
> older
> sister, Betty Smith, said he died of heart failure.
>
> Allen and Bill Russell began recording interviews with traditional jazz
> musicians in the mid-1950s in an oral history project that grew into 
> the
> William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. He was 
> associate
> curator of the archive from 1958 to 1965 and curator from 1965 to 
> 1980. He
> retired in 1992.
>
> Allen also was the author of numerous articles, liner notes and program
> notes. He was also a consultant, instructor, production adviser, 
> producer or
> curator for many institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution.
>
> In addition, he was among the original founders of the New Orleans 
> Jazz and
> Heritage Festival, which draws thousands of people to the city 
> annually.
>
> He studied trombone under "Professor" Manuel Manetta, the teacher of 
> Jelly
> Roll Morton, Red Allen and many other New Orleans musicians.
>
> Allen was born on Jan. 29, 1927, near Milledgeville, Ga., at Allen's 
> Invalid
> Home, a home for mentally ill patients established by his grandfather, 
> Dr.
> Henry Dawson Allen, and later operated by his father and uncle.
>
> Like other family members, Allen attended elementary and high school at
> Georgia Military College in Milledgeville. He studied at Princeton
> University before serving in the Navy during World War II and returned 
> to
> the United States to graduate from the University of Georgia.
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