[Dixielandjazz] It aint necessarily so

[Louis Lince]

Brian,

Well said. I am heartily sick of the "stalinist revisionism" regarding the 
start of the Hall.

best

Louis

Brian said (polite snip)

 A particular case in point is the almost  universal
> "fact" repeated in book after book, let alone innumerable websites, is 
> that
> Allan and Sandra Jaffe started Preservation Hall which would be news to 
> Ken
> Mills. It began formally as a Kitty Hall in June 1961, run by Barbara Reid
> Edmiston, Ralph Collins and Ken Mills in premises owned by Larry 
> Borenstein
> previously used as an art gallery, and only later did the Jaffes take 
> over.
> Subsequently, it seems, Edmiston, Collins and Mills have been airbrushed 
> out of  the
> "history" books. The Jaffes did a wonderful job in making the Hall 
> successful,
> but they did not start it.
> Brian Wood
>
>
>
>
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