<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">More good work, Norm—of course!—Charlie<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 24, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Norman Vickers <<a href="mailto:nvickers1@cox.net" class="">nvickers1@cox.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Responding to Charlie Suhor and Marek Boym, Norman Vickers writes:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hey Charlie and Marek—thanks for the accolades. I was pleased to get the story and the video for publicity about Jazz Pensacola’s contributions to the jazz room at downtown Pensacola’s new public library . Our library director has searched and found that the US has only one other public library which has a dedicated jazz room.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">( Some have rooms dedicated to music but apparently one other—in Washington state—has room dedicated exclusively to jazz) We started this when LPs were transitioning to CDs. Now the jazz books, CDs and DVDs are valued at $19,000.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">And we have some play-along books and recordings for students of all ages to improve their jazz skills.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Sunday November 13, Jazz Pensacola has trombonist David Sager who is the curator for the Library of Congress’ Jukebox Project coming. He will give a free talk at our downtown public library on that day. We’ll have local jazz group—Dixieland Dandies—play some early jazz tunes. Sager will sit in and then give his talk about the Jukebox Project which is collecting recordings—not only jazz but other music, speeches, poetry—in the public domain, now up to about 1925. ( For more details, search Library of Congress, Jukebox Project)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Then the following Monday, Nov. 14, Sager will bring some musical colleagues from New Orleans for a ticketed event at downtown Pensacola’s Seville Quarter for “ An Evening of New Orleans Music.” This coincides with our Annual Janet Knowles Memorial Jazz Gumbo event.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Additional information may be found at Jazz Pensacola’s website<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.jazzpensacola.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.jazzpensacola.com</a> The story from Pensacola News Journal and video is found on the home page at the very bottom of the page.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks all!<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Norman Vickers<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.jazzpensacola.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.jazzpensacola.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Volunteer Executive Director, Emeritus<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jazz Pensacola</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>