I'm curious; does Quint.....

[heyhon]

....have a day job? You know, like us- insurance sales, fry cook at the Clover Grill, policeman, etc.

Or is running the festival a full time job with pay and benefits and all that.

Just wondering.

[rosetree]

His "day job" is with Festival Productions which produces Jazz Fest amonst other festivals.
Read here.....
http://www.festivalproductions.net/about/producers.php

[windowman]

I think he used to represent the lollipop guild, but no longer meets the height requirement.

[rosetree]

I think he used to represent the lollipop guild, but no longer meets the height requirement.

Beep, beep, beep....low blow alert!!!

[funkkjunkie]

Bwaaahaaaa, windowman

[mightyradgumbo]

I think he used to represent the lollipop guild, but no longer meets the height requirement.

ROTFLMAO, Wynn...I am glad you didn't resist...TFF

[Zydekitten]

Actually, I thought he was the new NOLA-area rep for Trump Toupees™ . . .

;) :D

[RevDon]

Actually, I thought he was the new NOLA-area rep for Trump Toupees™ . . .

;) :D

Speaking of which, "The Donald" had a new look at Miss Universe last night. More of a "comb back" than a "comb over." (Poor miss USA, prolly has a bruised butt!);)

[mamaroux]

His "day job" is with Festival Productions which produces Jazz Fest amonst other festivals.
Read here.....
http://www.festivalproductions.net/about/producers.php

guess he couldn't make it as an architect, huh?

[AtPontchartrain]

guess he couldn't make it as an architect, huh?

That's his father, who helped fund the early festivals, and is an architect, and, interestingly, was a witness in the Garrison/Clay Shaw trial/fiasco. (http://www.jfk-online.com/davis.html) I guess his most famous buildings were the Superdome, the N.O. Arena, the N.O. Main Library, the Rivergate, many N.O. hotels, and various churches/synagogues.

Quint's college emphasis was ethnomusicology, though I don't know if he graduated. In those college years he spent untold time with Professor Longhair, managing him fulltime, running the hippiesque Love Shop in the French Quarter, working with the Hogan Jazz Archives at Tulane, managing Willie Tee and the Souls, and producing recordings. Though, I'd bet he could make it as an architect given the planning that must go into this and the other Festival Productions events.

[Headless Hornman]

That's his father, who helped fund the early festivals, and is an architect, and, interestingly, was a witness in the Garrison/Clay Shaw trial/fiasco. (http://www.jfk-online.com/davis.html)


From the testimony:

Q: More specifically, Mr. Davis, have you ever seen Mr. Shaw wearing noticeably tight trousers?

A: No.

WTF?

[AtPontchartrain]

from Clay Shaw's testimony:

Q: Now, Mr. Shaw, do you recall the occasion of President Kennedy's visiting New Orleans before his assassination?

A: Yes, I recall the occasion.

Q: Did you have any official connection with that visit?

A: Yes, I was invited by Congressman Boggs to be a member of the Reception Committee for the President.

Q: Did you serve on that Committee, sir?

A: I did.

Q: Would you describe for the Jury your duties or your activities in connection with that occasion.

A: Well, this was 1962, if I am not mistaken, and to the best of my recollection there were a group of about 60 people who were invited to serve on the Reception Committee. It was decided that a bus would take this group to the airport to meet, to welcome and receive President Kennedy. Of this group some, I would guess, 14 people were to be in the limousines which would follow the Presidential car from the airport to the Nashville Avenue Wharf, the remainder of the Reception Committee would follow in the buss which was in the motorcade.

Q: And where did you ride?

A: I rode in the bus.

Q: Did you go to the airport in that bus?

A: As I recall it, yes.

Q: Did you go later to the Nashville Avenue Wharf in that bus?

A: We did.

Q: Mr. Shaw, do you remember how you were dressed on that occasion?

A: I can't tell you the color of the suit and the color of the tie, but I certainly was dressed in a conservative business suit with a tie on that occasion.

Q: Did you have on tight pants, Mr. Shaw?

A: No, I did not.

Q: Have you ever worn tight pants?

A: No, I have not.

Q: Now, Mr. Shaw, prior to the President having come here on that occasion, had you ever met President Kennedy?

A: Yes, I had met President Kennedy....

http://www.jfk-online.com/shaw2.html

Testimony of Lloyd Cobb:

Q: Now Shaw -- Mr. Cobb, in view of the length of time you have known Mr. Shaw would you say you are familiar or not familiar with his manner of dress?

A: I am familiar with it to the extent of what I have seen in his business contacts. Q: Have you ever known him to wear a hat?

A: No.

Q: Have you ever known him to wear tight pants?

A: No.

Q: Would you tell us how he customarily dressed for business occasions?

A: He dressed like any ordinary businessman in all his contacts with the Trade Mart.

Q: By any ordinary businessman, how would you describe that?

A: On the conservative side.

http://www.jfk-online.com/cobb2.html

Testimony of Jeff Biddison:

Q: Have you ever seen the man depicted in this photograph or one similar to him in appearance, in the company of Clay Shaw?

A: Never.

Q: During the years you have known or been acquainted with Clay L. Shaw, have you become acquainted with his manner of dress?

A: Yes.

Q: Have you ever known him to wear tight pants?

A: Never.

Q: Have you ever known him to wear a hat?

A: Never.

Q: Have you ever known him to own a hat other than in military service?

A: No.

http://www.jfk-online.com/biddison.html


There was some reason to Garrison's swirling theories. Today, some say, looking back at the 60's, that Garrison was a repressed homosexual, jealous of the "out" lifestyle which Shaw led. He tried to make the jury dislike Shaw by putting emphasis on and exaggerating those visible and stereotypical traits of gay quarter life. Garrison's "star" witness, David Ferrie, testified to Shaw's flamboyant nature when using his supposed assumed name of Clem or Clay Bertrand. None of the credible witnesses backed that theory, though. Shaw was very much in the public eye prior to the Garrison trial, as head of N.O.'s International Trade Mart. Among his supporters, like Life Magazine's David Chandler and tv hostess Terry Flettrich, Shaw was a hero for standing tall throughout the mud throwing. However, he died a broken man, and I wish someone would make a real movie about his life. In fact, I believe that the slow loss of N.O.'s place in international trade to Houston and other ports can be attributed in part, certainly not entirely, to [groundless] suspicions against Shaw as JFK conspirator and [grounded] as a gay man, lingering in the Latin American trade community.

[stlbarb]

His "day job" is with Festival Productions which produces Jazz Fest amonst other festivals.
Read here.....
http://www.festivalproductions.net/about/producers.php

this conversation took place in a bar, but i was told by a friend of Quint's sister, that daddy created jazz fest and the foundation so the party boy would have a job. (i believe this would be considered hearsay - but its an interesting story)

[AtPontchartrain]

this conversation took place in a bar, but i was told by a friend of Quint's sister, that daddy created jazz fest and the foundation so the party boy would have a job. (i believe this would be considered hearsay - but its an interesting story)

The Fest was started with a board of directors from the already existing NO Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Wein did not think they knew anything about festivals, except for Harry Souchon, so he put together more local NO advisers. Dick Allen of the N.O. Jazz Museum, Bill Russell, art dealer Larry Bornstein (who promoted Sister Gertrude Morgan's art), Preservation Hall's Allan Jaffe, and Ellis Marsalis. It was Dick Allen from this group who suggested that the kid working for him at the Hogan Jazz Archives at Tulane was immersed in NO jazz and blues, and his girlfriend was immersed in folk. Quint Davis, Allison Miner. That's your beginning. (Although he doesn't make the history books, their friend Henry Hildebrand also played a big role the first year.) Wein did not know Quint's father until the third year, when the pop approached Wein and thanked him, saying, "I'm Arthur Davis. You seem to have given my son Quint a direction in life." Wein then suggested Mr. Davis join the board, and they soon made him president. He gave tremendous financial help in those early years, when the fest did not pay for itself. Bless 'em all.

[bywterbro]

The Fest was started with a board of directors from the already existing NO Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Wein did not think they knew anything about festivals, except for Harry Souchon, so he put together more local NO advisers. Dick Allen of the N.O. Jazz Museum, Bill Russell, art dealer Larry Bornstein (who promoted Sister Gertrude Morgan's art), Preservation Hall's Allan Jaffe, and Ellis Marsalis. It was Dick Allen from this group who suggested that the kid working for him at the Hogan Jazz Archives at Tulane was immersed in NO jazz and blues, and his girlfriend was immersed in folk. Quint Davis, Allison Miner. That's your beginning. (Although he doesn't make the history books, their friend Henry Hildebrand also played a big role the first year.) Wein did not know Quint's father until the third year, when the pop approached Wein and thanked him, saying, "I'm Arthur Davis. You seem to have given my son Quint a direction in life." Wein then suggested Mr. Davis join the board, and they soon made him president. He gave tremendous financial help in those early years, when the fest did not pay for itself. Bless 'em all.

thats exactly how its been stated in all the articles ive read...thanks AP
for setting the record straight...

[AtPontchartrain]

Realize, if the above isn't clear, the Foundation had been formed a few years prior to the first festival. They very much wanted one, and hired Willis Conover, the famous voice of jazz on the international Voice of America radio, to run it. He did try, but it was not successful. That's when they turned back to Wein, whom they had talked to originally. There was also a festival at the Roosevelt Hotel in '68 or '69, run by the attorney-wheeler-dealer Dean Andrews, who, strangely, was ALSO a major witness for Jim Garrison in the Shaw show trial. He basically put some traditional bands into the Blue Room, but they promoted it as the New Orleans Jazz Festival. So by the time Wein came in, the concert hall style had already struck out, and he needed a "Woodstock generation" leader not stuck on the old ways of doing things. Quint fit that need perfectly.

[bywterbro]

those were the days new orleans was blatantly racist.....which made
the early goings of jazzfest real rough....
it was not unheard of for no police to ride horses into black churches
to break up religious services...
tootie montana died lecturing the no brass about poor treatment
of mardi gras indians only in the very recent past..
in the early days musicians performing at jazzfest who were not from
the area would stay in the homes of members of the heritage society
and others....and the society also realized the importance of
Prof. Longhair, and helped him revive his health and his career...

[mamaroux]

That's his father, who helped fund the early festivals, and is an architect, and, interestingly, was a witness in the Garrison/Clay Shaw trial/fiasco. (http://www.jfk-online.com/davis.html) I guess his most famous buildings were the Superdome, the N.O. Arena, the N.O. Main Library, the Rivergate, many N.O. hotels, and various churches/synagogues.

Quint's college emphasis was ethnomusicology, though I don't know if he graduated. In those college years he spent untold time with Professor Longhair, managing him fulltime, running the hippiesque Love Shop in the French Quarter, working with the Hogan Jazz Archives at Tulane, managing Willie Tee and the Souls, and producing recordings. Though, I'd bet he could make it as an architect given the planning that must go into this and the other Festival Productions events.

Yeah, I knew his dad was a somewhat famous NO architect... I was just poking fun at him for not going in to the family bidness.

[Amy Winette]

This thread has turned into a fascinating history lesson, I love it! :)

[bywterbro]

This thread has turned into a fascinating history lesson, I love it! :)
heeeeeeeeeeee...............meee 2