[Dixielandjazz] oops, just sent an old message by mistake--ignore: NOJ&H commentary--Charlie Suhor writes

[Charles Suhor]

Re-sent in error--

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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