[Dixielandjazz] Looking for Lady Day's Resting Place? Charlie Suhor reports about Baby Dodds' grave.

[Norman Vickers]

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From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

 

See Charlie Suhor's comment about Warren "Baby" Dodds' gravesite.

Thanks, Charlie.

 

From: Charles Suhor [mailto:csuhor at zebra.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:24 PM
To: Norman Vickers
Subject: Re: Looking for Lady Day's Resting Place? Detour Ahead-- NPR

 

A few years ago, there was a similar discovery about the unmarked plot of
Warren "Baby" Dodds, arguably the prototype of jazz drumming, in Lincoln
Cemetery, Cooks County, Ill . A fund was set up, and an all-too modest
headstone erected. The link is below.--Charlie Suhor

 

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr
<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13693853>
&GRid=13693853

 

 
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