40th Annual Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash
June 27st – 28, 2014
78s, LPs, CDs & memorabilia.
Allen was author of “Hendersonia,” the comprehensive bio-discography of Fletcher Henderson that set the standard against which all future jazz bio-discographies would be measured. At the time of his death, Allen was working on an expanded version of his biography of King Oliver.
The discographical conferences, or Discons as they were familiarly referred to, were events at which collectors and researchers of jazz recordings from all over the country would gather for a weekend of lectures and socializing. With Walt’s passing, the conferences ceased taking place.
Enter Ken Crawford, Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ken was a researcher, host of a radio program on which he played vintage jazz recordings, jazz film collector and archivist, and a founding member and one-time president of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors [IAJRC]. Wanting to have a place where jazz record collectors could annually gather, as they had done at the Discons, Ken established what he informally referred to as a “collector’s bash.”
Here, in part, is how he described the first bash in an advertisement in the spring 1975 IAJRC Journal.
As a tribute to the memory of our good friend, Walt Allen, we are holding what we hope to be a genuine jazz record collector’s bash [sic], featuring the playing, trading, buying & selling of jazz records, along with just plain listening to our kind of music. Aside from this, we may or may not have a speaker, on Saturday afternoon, to be decided later, however, there will definitely be a jazz-film show, on Saturday evening from 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM.
This bash is not in any way to be compared to Walt Allen’s great “Discons” of past years, but merely a get-to-gether [sic] for collectors, in memory of Walt. If this sounds like your bag, we hope to see you there.
So began what has become an annual tradition.
Read more: http://www.jazzbash.net
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