Jazz History Revealed

(PRLEAP.COM) Jazz History Revealed
Jazz Exposé: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It
By Howard E. Fischer

“ You make a very strong, positive impression on me in many ways: your fairness to the other side; your concern for jazz artists not just as machines grinding out entertainment but also as human beings, often exploited and self-destructive; your very precis ”

What They Say

I have been unable to put the book down, as I find the Museum’s story very fascinating!
Robert J. Robbins (9/25/04)
USA Secretary, Big Bands International

"JAZZ EXPOSE - the New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It is a book conspiracy theorists are going to love."
http://www.jazzsite.co.uk

"Most people don’t know that between 1972 and 1977 the most significant institution commemorating the history of jazz was the New York Jazz Museum. In fact, most people probably don’t even know that it existed. And yet the story of the rise and fall of this museum is a great one….
Fischer has not only resurrected an important New York landmark on paper, but has written a book full of interesting trivia, personal histories and glimpses of jazz greats and their legacies."
(Reprinted with permission of International Musician/American
Federation of Musicians, October 2004)

"You make a very strong, positive impression on me in many ways: your fairness to the other side; your concern for jazz artists not just as machines grinding out entertainment but also as human beings, often exploited and self-destructive; your very precise, logical, verbal distinctions; your honesty about your negative traits; your idealism in your giving yourself so fully, even so fanatically, to a cause in which you believe. I don’t see many of my fellow lovers of classical music sacrificing to promote it in the way that you have promoted jazz."
Jim McDonough

Jazz Exposé is sure to be a good, gossipy, 135-page read. For the non-trashtalkers out there, Fischer also writes all about the museum’s 25,000-item archive of jazz and the programs the museum presented during its brief existence.
JazzTimes, Inc.

A new book ‘Jazz Expose. The New York Jazz Museum and the power struggle that destroyed it’ has just been released which has traced the origins, the life and the demise of one of New York’s more unique museums.
soundgenerator.com

I was sincerely amazed that shortly after the mailing package had fallen from your book, I was nearing page 40….
I commend your book, the love, involvement and struggle that you have long experienced for the music and your willingness to share your experiences with others…. I envy the proximity to the jazz places and people that you had, and still have and enjoyed and suffered over. I feel a kinship with you. Thank you for the book. Thank you for working so hard to do things well.
Davies Burton

This book will satisfy both the cognoscente and the fan alike. The information and the news items contained in this 133 page booklet bring the glory days of jazz to life and detail the devious side of the jazz world with all its seaminess laid bare.
The true music lover will find this book the ultimate inside story of the top jazz musicians of the era and the sad ending of a wonderful idea extinguished by infighting and jealousy.
I hate to repeat an old cliché, but this is a must read for scholars and jazz buffs alike.
http://community-2.webtv.net/johnnyjazz/johnnyjazzsjazzpage

…one could easily argue that this volume deserves a place on the bookshelf of every true jazz fan, even if only for completion’s sake.
Blogcritics.org
Book Review: Jazz Expose - Posted by Scott Pepper

JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT DESTROYED IT by Howard E. Fischer (Sundog Ltd., 134 pages. $15) is a fairly exhaustive account of the first Jazz museum in the country (discounting, Fischer says, a contemporary museum in New Orleans whose scope was far more limited)…. Fischer’s story is an eye-opening account of the legal hassles and business strategies endemic to such ventures, but is also full of great jazz stories involving many major musicians of the early and mid-1900’s who were still flourishing at the time.
BOOK LOOK Cadence Magazine April 2005

Howard E. Fischer’s Jazz Exposé: The Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It (Sundog, LTD.) tells a sad and disgraceful story about what happened to a noble cause, his initially successful attempt to create a museum in New York celebrating the accomplishments of jazz music and heralding the importance of the music. Fischer was the key figure in the creation of the New York Jazz Museum in 1972, an establishment that lasted until 1977, yet has somehow been essentially stricken from the history books. This account outlines a lengthy, often sad litany of how a longtime dream turned into an nightmare and how Fischer eventually found himself entangled in legal battles and dismissed from the very institution that he’d helped build. It’s frankly amazing that so little has been told about this story and the facts that at one time the museum had a 25,000 item archive, was recognized by the White House and even attracted the attention of such celebrities as Bill Cosby and the late Artie Shaw. Fischer’s account is extremely detailed, even including a record of various arbitration and legal proceedings that went on for nearly a decade, and his remarks, comments and admissions seem devoid of animus or exaggeration. Why this hasn’t gotten more currency or exposure within the jazz world is a mystery, because the story presented in Jazz Exposé clearly merits more recognition and evaluation.
Nashvillecitypaper.com
Riffs By Ron Wynn
June 24, 2005
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfmsection_id=12&screen=news&news_id=424 04

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