Jazz Exposé: 51 Secrets Revealed

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 19, 2007 – Jazz Exposé: 51 Secrets Revealed

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 is a story about a Lost Museum and the secrets it reveals.

     JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT DESTROYED IT is a book by Howard E. Fischer, the Museum’s founder and Executive Director. In the book there are 51 secrets about the Museum’s history and jazz history in New York City as well as many quotes and stories from musicians and the “jazz fraternity” that are revealed here for the first time.
   
    For example, why you never heard of the New York Jazz Museum, how the Ford Foundation saved the New York Jazz Museum, how the Today Show helped promote the New York Jazz Museum, how an idea from a former Duke Ellington bassist grew into a unique jazz program for children, what happened to the Museum's 25,000-item archive, what Charles Mingus asked the author to do, what The White House said about the Museum, how Benny Goodman and his estate got entangled in the Museum's legal machinations, the Museum's re-creation of an important event in the history of jazz in New York City, how a "kidnapping" saved the Museum, Artie Shaw's role in the New York Jazz Museum saga, how the Museum purchased a midtown Manhattan building for $5,000 cash!, threats against the author make for serious melodrama, the legal machinations that went on for more than 10 years!, the dramatic scene that precipitated the demise of the Museum, what Charlie Parker said about music, why many jazz musicians died so young, what musicians said about Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong's thoughts about his fellow musicians, what the jazz community said about Benny Goodman, The Power Struggle, why Mick Jagger was turned away from the Museum and so much more.

    There were the free 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 Touring Program, The Jazz Store, Information Center, the exhibits - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bird & Diz: The Bebop Era, 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.

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
Published by Sundog, Ltd., Nashville, TN
Contact: (212) 579-0689
Web site: http://www.NYJazzMuseum.com