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(Continued from Page 11) Norman O'Connor, a Paulist priest and chaplain at Boston University. He now does three different record shows in Beantown. His latest-over CBS outlet WEEI-is straight jazz "with no gimmicks." Father O'Connor is also an active member of the Planning Committee of the Newport Jazz Festival."
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one who could have done us much good - did an about face, and really let "us" have it, but good.( But BAD, I mean!) We quote a pertinent paragraph (Aug. 16, 1955):
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"The design should be that of a brothel rampant on a prostrate quarter
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in-the-slot piano, the whole mounted on a spread-out copy of the Story Ordinance of 1898, with a red light gleam
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ing in pertetuity above the sculptured
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As we go to press, the 6th Annual Folk and Jazz Roundtable at Music Inn Lenox, Mass. is just about history. Unfortunately, we have had no onthe-spot report - but are willing to venture that it was tops, probably topping all previous efforts of the Old Maestro, Prof. Marshall Stearns, head of "The Institute of Jazz Studies". Gosh, wish we coulda made it again! Did we have us a ball on the two times we were fortunate enough to go! And learned a great deal also.
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doorway."
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In April, 1950, the same editor featured a two and one-half column story on jazz, whose tone was quite friendly, and from which we again quote a pertinent paragraph:
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"What started me off on this track was the remark of a Northern visitor at the current fiesta that jazz was spawn
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ed on Basin Street by the bordellos of Storyville. I have heard this dictum any number of times. It never fails to irritate me because it is so obviously wide
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of the mark."
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Not too long ago, the editor of "The Second Line" made the mistake of writing his first "Letter to the Editor" of the same newspaper from which the
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Since Wednesday, May 18th, the night of the dedication ceremonies "marking the completion of the widening, relighting, and beautification of Basin Street" (in which George Blanchin, our president, took quite an active and prominent part), quite a hassle has been going on in the newspapers.
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preceeding quotations were taken. He attempted to correct remarks which had appeared by this same columnist -and let his enthusiasm get away with him. The results? A life-long friendship lost-and a most disparaging column against jazz at a time when a few words from the columnist could have done most good! To recant, I can't-and won't. But I can say that I have never regretted anything more in my life.
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Almost daily, "Letters to the Editor" are appearing voicing opinions as to where a statue commemorating jazz should be placed, what it should look like, etc., etc., etc. Also, there were many letters objecting to jazz being remembered at all-and even hoping for the time to come when it would be completely forgotten! The penand-ink wrangle grew so hot, that even editorials were published. We were fortunate that we had our share of "favorable" columns, under the names of some of the columnists who are read daily in the N.O. papers, because
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The Florida Times-Union editorialized on the absolute necessity for a stone or bronze monument to jazz being erected to New Orleans, because "jazz has had a tremendous impact upon all forms of music of America
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(Continued on Page 32)
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28 Annual New Orleans Jazz Club Festival, Friday, October 7, 1955
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