[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Willis Conover and Jazzfest-Charlie Suhor writes

[David Richoux]

I have the same album, and I asked the same question one year while  
talking to several Jazzfest officials. They said that was a totally  
different thing - no connection between the 1955 festival and the  
later Jazz fests. They seemed to indicate that the early ones were a  
much more "commercial arrangement with some French Quarter nightclubs"  
but I didn't get any further details from them.

http://tinyurl.com/av2map  leads to a Googlebook with several  
paragraphs about Turk's performances in New Orleans for that 1955  
festival.


I did not know about those early years of the "Jazz and Heritage  
Festival" - it would be interesting to read those DownBeat articles.

Dave RIchoux

On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Marek Boym wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> Date: 3 Feb 2009 01:09
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Willis Conover and Jazzfest-Charlie  
> Suhor writes
> To: Norman Vickers <nvickers1 at cox.net>
>
>
> First New Orleans Jazz Festival in 11968?  I have a Turk Murphy LP
> which purports to have been tecorded at the New Orleans Jazz Festival
> in November 1955!
> Cheers
>