<div dir="ltr">This discussion reminded me of a vanity plate once owned by my old friend Jeff Haskell, who taught in the jazz program at the U of Arizona and established their recording studio. Jeff's plate was JAZZ ME, and some AZ bureaucrat looked superficially into the history of the word and decided that it was obscene. Jeff's renewal of the plate was denied. But then the local paper picked up the story, and that resulted in notice taken by the great Mike Royko in Chicago. Royko wrote a scathing column defending Jeff and scorching silly bureaucrats. I believe Jeff got his plate back.<div><br></div><div>John Blegen</div><div>Clarinetist in KC MO</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:17 PM pcrums <<a href="mailto:pcrums@gmail.com">pcrums@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Hi all - Good to read about Norm Vickers and his JazzDoc license plate. As a dentist and jazz musician I, too, applied for a Dr Jazz plate (here in CA) but it was already taken. I settled on DR JAZ which I have had for years.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Is this a great list , or what?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Phil Crumley</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Natural Gas Jazz Band</div></div>
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