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Doze are the Days
Thanks for the beefy new Journal , loaded with good stuff.
To finish off the picture of the Ann Arbor convention, here are a few final notes on glitches in August (2003) and in the recent Journal , submitted by your obedient servant, the local chair.
We arrived the first morning to discover that the organization's name was printed on all the rooms as "IARJC." (The hotel worked fast to correct it, but I guess we're not exactly a household name!)
When the new Journal came I was particularly interested in reaction to my speech on WW II jazz and a Nazi jazz band. I hurried to Charles Swearingen's article on page 14. His comment, "Alas, I slept." If I'd known, Charles, I would have had someone wake you or at least supply you with a text!)
My next surprise was on the next page. There's my picture with my mouth wide open, but "Alan Scharf" is the name on the picture.
There's more. On the next page is my name on a picture of the handsome but stone-faced Alan Scharf.
I hope everyone who came to Ann Arbor had a good time at the convention. I certainly did, even though misidentified and unreviewed!
Hazen Schumacher
Ann Arbor, Mich .
Feeling Down, Down UnderJust got the Winter '04 issue. I always found the contents to be of interest, but now it all looks so good! And the ink doesn't make me sneeze anymore!!
It was with horror that I read about the fate of Bozy White. I never knew him, but I felt him to be an important cog in the Association. Now I know why I haven't gotten any acknowledgement for some discogs of Australian jazz that I had sent (Bozy) last year.
And people wonder why I left the U.S. for here -- Bozy's murder is just one more brick in the wall for me. So sad, and so unnecessary.
Peter Lowry
Austinmer, Australia
Bozy FarewellI first met Bozy White-after corresponding with him, some 30 years ago at an IAJRC convention in San Francisco, where he presented a lecture on Bunny Berigan. Knowing that I was a...