[Dixielandjazz] Coverage in national jazz magazines-- Lew Shaw

[Marek Boym]

Surprising that Downbeat even mentions jazz anymore.  And there is at
least one other festival devoted to a single musician - Bunny Berigan.

Cheers

On 21 May 2011 21:47, Norman Vickers <nvickers1 at cox.net> wrote:
> To: DJML:  Musicians and Jazzfans lists
>

> Three familiar names recently showed up on the pages of national jazz
> magazines. Josh Duffee and the 40th Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Festival got a
> full-page plug in Downbeat, calling the Festival “the only one branded and
> dedicated to the music and spirit of one musician” and noting the 80th
> anniversary of the legendary cornetist’s passing in 1931 at the age of 28.
> The 31-year-old Duffee has taken over as Festival musical director for the
> late Rich Johnson.
>
> Josh mentioned being part of the Bix Youth Band in 1998 and hearing the New
> Wolverine band is what turned him on to becoming a full-time musician and
> playing the music of the 1920s. He recently toured Australia with Andy
> Schumm for a month, and the two will be in England in November for Mike
> Durham’s Classic Jazz Party. Josh and his orchestra will be at the Detroit
> International Jazz Festival in September, which he says will be “the first
> time the music of Jean Goldkette and McKinney’s Cotton Pickers will be back
> in the town where it all blossomed.”
>