[Dixielandjazz] Grateful?

[Marek Boym]

Sure.
But the name is new to me - I joined much later.  But he certainly belongs
in that "forgotten heroes" list.
Cheers

On 27 March 2017 at 03:19, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Marek,
>
> How about remembering Peter Lovric who started DJML on March 13, 1995, 22
> years ago?
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> DJML: Moderator
>
>
> *From:* Marek Boym
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 26, 2017 11:52 AM
> *To:* Bob Ringwald
> *Cc:* George H. Buck ; Mat Domber ; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Dixielandjazz] Grateful?
>
> It seems that jazz fans are an ungrateful lot!  How soon we forget those
> to whom we owe so much.  Here's just a partial list:
> Leslie Johnson, the founder and editor of "The Mississippi Rag," a
> wonderful magazine devoted to our kind of music, passed away on 17 January
> 2009 (caveat: after several years of subscribing I became a contributor).
> Mat Domber, the founder of Arbors Records, thanks to whom we have so many
> Rick Fay, Ruby Braff, Bob Wilber or Kenny Davern CDs, and have been
> introduced to so many excellent pianists, passed away on 19 September 2013;
> George H. Buck Junior, the founder of GHB and Jazzology records, whose
> whole life was devoted to the preservation and diffusion of traditional
> jazz, passed away on 11 December 2013.
> Did we remember to pay tribute on their anniversaries?  After all, had in
> not been for the Rag, at least some of us would not become aware of many
> musicians and of great international jazz festivals.  Had it not been for
> the George H. Buck labels, many deserving musicians worldwide would have
> been unrecorded, or recorded only on local labels without international
> distribution.
> I, at least, had never even  heard of Rick Fay before encountering his
> name on an Arbors CD; how many of you would have heard of Chris Hopkins or
> Paolo Alderighi had not Mat issued CDs thereof in the States?
> So let's at least give credit to those who are still doing us such
> service, for Example Bob Erdos of Stomp Off or Paul Adams of Lake Records,
> who have given many of us many hours of pleasure, and are still doing so.
> Cheers
>
>
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