New Orleans Jazz Club

Gilbert Erskine, New Orleans Jazz Club Founder, Dies At 81

Source: Michael Ricci
August 31, 2010

By Charles Suhor The last surviving founder of the New Orleans Jazz Club, Gilbert Erskine, died at age 81 in Malone, New York on December 5th last year, but his passing was unknown in New Orleans for almost nine months. Erskine's sole continuing contact from his New Orleans years, writer Charles Suhor, grew concerned after several months passed without contact. He learned in late August through the internet and a series of phone calls that Erskine had died of heart ...
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