Jazz History updated
- From: "Joe Finn" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:33:46 -0400
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Jazz History Updated
The Lost Museum
JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT
DESTROYED IT
52 Reasons to Read This Book (please see - www.NYJazzMuseum.com)
Have you ever heard of the New York Jazz Museum? Most people have not.
Yet between 1972 and 1977 it was the most significant institution for
jazz in the world. This book looks back to present the story of a
"Lost Museum."
It was situated in its own two-story building in mid-town Manhattan
and had a small staff, an archive that eventually numbered about
25,000 items and extensive programs in New York City and beyond. Some
of the programs won awards and most of them were received with
widespread acclaim in the media and from jazz fans.
There were the Calvert Extra Sunday Concerts - 40 per year, the Jazz
Puppet Show, the Jazz Film Festivals, the Jazz Panorama - an audio
visual history of jazz, The Jazz Store, Information Center, the
exhibits - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bird & Diz:
The Bebop Era, The Sax Section, Count Basie and His Bands, Billie
Holiday Remembered, About John Coltrane and the Jazz Trumpet. Posters
and booklets were produced in conjunction with the exhibits and there
was so much more.
An extended power struggle ensued that eventually caused the Museum's
demise. Entangled in the fatal conflagration was the "Jazz
Fraternity," which included the most prominent names in jazz -
musicians, producers, writers, artists, et al.
This book tells the whole story for the first time. It was written by
Howard E. Fischer, founder of the Museum and its Executive Director.
Title - JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND
THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT DESTROYED IT
Author - Howard E. Fischer
5 ½ x 8 ½ Paperback 134 pages illustrations
ISBN: 9781932203875
Contact: (212) 579-0689
Web site: http://www.NYJazzMuseum.com
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