[Dixielandjazz] NOJ&H commentary--Charlie Suhor writes

[Norman Vickers]

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From:  Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

 

Jazz author/historian Charlie Suhor writes re NOJ&H Festival

 

Thanks, Charlie

 

From: Charles Suhor [mailto:csuhor at zebra.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:25 PM
To: Norman Vickers
Subject: Re: NOJ&H commentary-- Doug Ramsey

 

Yes, Doug Ramsey was a newsman on WDSU-TV in New Orleans during the first
Jazzfest years and a great member of the committee that selected the talent.
I reviewed the first festival in '68 for Down Beat. Emcee Willis Conover
called it "the only all-jazz jazz festival." Editor Dan Morgenstern came
down to review the '69 festival and I covered it for New Orleans magazine
and the weekly Vieux Carre Courier. The early history of the festival and
some sadly hilarious in-fighting involving Al Rose insulting Al Belletto and
modern jazz are described in "The Strange Case of the Jazz and Heritage
Festival," pp. 34-43 of my book Jazz in New Orleans: the Postwar Years
Through 1970.

 

Charlie