[Dixielandjazz] Teagarden & Showler + Bunny

[Bill Haesler]

> I've been waiting years for Showler's definitive Teagarden book. Have you
any information about it's current status?<

Dear Stan,
Sorry about the delay in replying.
Herewith two items of similar interest from 'Big Band News" October 2006:

Where's the Bunny Berigan Book?
    "At the moment, it's sitting on my computer," jazz aficionado Perry
Huntoon, a former President of the International Association of Jazz Record
Collectors (IAJRC), told me. 
    He's one of several people who have been helping to see Bozy White's
lifelong project through to publication, since White was murdered in 2004. 
    "I have the latest updates," Huntoon noted.
    A publisher has not been determined; he said it will not be published by
the IAJRC, but suggested that Scarecrow Press is a possibility.
    Huntoon hopes that Bozy's work, once announced as 1500 pages in 2
volumes, will at last be available around spring 2007.

Time for "T"?  Not Yet!
    Collectors have also been waiting for the release of Joe Showler's
biographical work about Jack Teagarden; it had been hoped that the book
would be ready for publication in 2006, but that now seems unlikely, due to
money problems in Joe's personal life. 
    "I don't mind you telling anybody that my financial position has halted
my work on finalizing the book - that's the truth and that's the problem,"
he responded to me this month.  "Maybe some real rich jazz fan will come
forward with some help!"
    A sample of Joe's 900 pages of research, which he prepared as 28
chapters, is presently in the hands of a potential publisher, but nothing
has been decided at this time.  (Some editing may be necessary.)

Kind regards,
Bill.