Edward G Marks

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I was first exposed to jazz around 1956, when George Lewis came to Cincinnati and played an extraordinary concert on a yacht club on the Ohio River. That started a long love of New Orleans music, and friendships with many of the early greats in their later years. We were also close friends of the Borensteins and Sandy and Allan Jaffe. My father and I shot hundreds of photos of these musicians, some of which are in museums and other repositories around the world and have been exhibited in several locations. I played clarinet in earlier years, and still have the Albert system horn that George Lewis gave me in 1961. I am now 81, and still enjoy both the old recordings and some of the fantastic young musicians who are playing today.

We had the George Lewis band to our home for Thanksgiving dinner once, and in the evening we all gathered around the piano on whatever instruments happened to be around — George playing my Boehm clarinet, Jim Robinson on my guitar, Kid Howard on a $13 cornet I had bought at a pawn shop. etc. It was a marvelous evening. Not exactly a house concert in the usual sense of the term, but a jam session in a home.

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