[Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Jazz Festival 1955 (was Willis Conover and Jazzfest)

[Norman Vickers]

Thanks, Bill.  Looks like you have "nailed it" again.  With your response
plus that of Charlie Suhor ( will be posted on an upcoming DJML) Marek has
gotten the definitive answers he was seeking.

Appreciate your help.

Norman Vickers
 Jazz Society of Pensacola




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Haesler [mailto:bhaesler at bigpond.net.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:30 AM
To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Cc: David Richoux; Marek Boym; Norman Vickers; TBW504 at aol.com; Mike Logsdon
Subject: Re: New Orleans Jazz Festival 1955 (was Willis Conover and
Jazzfest)

Dear friends,
David Richoux has done it again.
As I knew he would.
In addition to the various answers to Marek's query regarding a Jazz  
Festival in New Orleans in 1955, an entry in the 2004 Lawrence  
McClellan Jr book "The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955" appears to  
settle it with the following information:
"Columbia recorded Murphy and his band at the New Orleans Jazz  
Festival in 1955. The band performed at the Municipal Auditorium, on  
board the S.S. President riverboat, and at the Delgado Museum of Art  
during the three-day festival. Columbia covered the performances with  
two engineers and the same equipment used to record the Philadelphia  
Orchestra a week before the New Orleans' Festival."
It looks like we now have the lot.
As Mike Logsdon pointed out to me off list, I have the Turk Murphy  
session referred to by Marek on a commercial CD.
A recent Jasmine release JASCD 439 "Turk's Delight'.
Silly me.
It seems that my friend Mike knows more about my collection than I do.
8>)
Very kind regards,
Bill.
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