Word comes from Walter T. Dymit, of 2323 North 77th Court, Elmwood Park 35, Ill. that he wishes to dispose of half his collection (some 5,000 discs). These include early jazz and personality records, and range in date from 1920 to 1940. Anyone interested may contact him directly. Mention "The Second Line" when you do, please? The guy owns over 10,000 and needs room!		of "Personality - Turk Murphy". "LIFE" has a feature story about the renaissance of the banjo. It tells how the "craze" has hit America, so much so that the manufacturers are not able to keep supply up to demand. Entire schools of banjo tyros are being organized, and they are being taught 20 at a time'.
		The NOJC and "The Second Line" cannot but comment on the fact that the N.O. correspondent for "LIFE" kept us on the telephone for almost 45 minutes, pumping all the info he could about the banjo in New Orleans, getting names and addresses (and promises of photos) and then "LIFE" publishes not one word about New Orleans. Maybe its because Ye Editor stressed the fact that the banjo had never gone "o-u-t" in our city, and decried the type of banjo music that was being foisted on the public as the genuine article. Man! We could trot out at least 15 first class banjo men from the Crescent City on a moment's notice, who could demonstrate the flexibility of the instrument-in contrast to the raucous, rigid, and metronome version which is being taught. Maybe we'll cook up our own banjo issue of "The Second Line". We've already had one, you know?
July 15th, 16th and 17th found the Newport Jazz Festival once again packing in thousands of jazz fans from all walks of life.
To quote "Mademoiselle," July 1955: "All kinds of jazz were presented. Cool, ultracool, ultra-ultracool. modified cool, swing, noncool, modern, and just plain, good old hot beat - me - daddy - with - a - boogie - beat jazz_" Armstrong, Krupa, Basie, Ellington, Dinah Washington, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, the McPartlands, Theolonius Monk, and "The Modern Jazz Quartet" were among those present, but this abbreviated list does not approach the halfway mark on jazz celebs who attended and performed.
Turk Murphy seems to have himself a doggone good press agent. The September 1955 issues of "Esquire" and "Holiday" both carry articles mostly dwelling on the Turk. "Holiday's" article is titled "San Francisco Jazz" by Eddie Condon (old Mr. Music himself), and "Esquire's" goes under the handle
		Quotation from Paul Shapler's "On the Jazz Scene," which accompanies "Jazztone Membership News":
		"The latest and most improbable jazz disc-jockey is Boston's Father
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