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Blob’s Park Closes and Re-open...Another 70 Years? Blob’s Park, the German beer garden in Jessup, MD, and home of the annual PRJC Picnic, re-opened for New Year’s celebrations welcoming in 2009. Blob’s Park will once again be the location of the 2009 PRJC Jazz Picnic in September. Max Eggerel is using $250,000 to rehab the main building (kitchen, restrooms and bar). Blob’s Park’s new website can be found at http://blobspark.net with photos of the renovations and a list of upcoming event. New Orleans Jazz Musician Jacques Gauthe’ 1939-2007 Jacques Gauthe’ passed away on Sunday, June 10, 2007, in Gaujac, France. Age 67. Read more. Anna Wahler Dies Anna Wahler, longtime PRJC member and supporter of traditional jazz, and in particular the Buck Creek Jazz Band, died of cancer on September 2, 2004 at her home in Temple Hills, MD. She was 86. Her husband, Fred, died in 1991. She had hundreds of friends and acquaintances in the traditional jazz community across the country. Perhaps the best tribute to Mrs. Wahler can be found in the liner notes for the Buck Creek Jazz Band CD titled “Anna’s Boys” issued in 1998. The notes were written by Jim Ritter, the band’s co-leader. Read the notes. Blob’s Park Closes After 70 Years Rumors that Blob’s Park, the German beer garden in Jessup, MD, and home of the annual PRJC Picnic, will close at the end of this year have been confirmed in local news stories. They quote John Eggrel, the manager, as saying this year’s Octoberfest would be the last event at the popular restaurant and picnic grounds.    Members of the PRJC Board of Directors are actively looking for an alternative venue for its annual September picnic which draws jazz fans from up and down the Eastern seaboard. We are searching for a site which provides protection from the weather, such as a pavilion for up to 250 people, allows beer and wine to be sold or brought in, and provides a way to control access. Usual amenities such as parking and restrooms are also important. The site should be within about 25 miles of downtown Washington, D.C.    If any members know of possible candidates, they are asked to contact Al Welcome at 703-437-4442. New Orleans Jazz and Caribbean Music There seems to be a close similarity between the body of music known as New Orleans Jazz and what is known as West Indian, Caribbean and/or Calypso music, but which represents musical characteristics associated with Creole culture in the Caribbean. The melodic and harmonic ties are there, but the strongest ties are reflected in the use of the same rhythmic patterns in both geographic areas - in fact, exactly the same rhythmic patterns, and combinations of rhythmic patterns. Read more. Mystery History (A New Genre?) Embark on an exciting journey of mystery, false clues, dead ends, and smoking guns in an effort to determine whether one composition of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band- and not only a composition, but the band’s first published composition - has languished unnoticed for decades. Read more. Remembering Pee Wee    From the October, November, and December 2000 Tailgate Ramblings Rememberances that Jimmy Hamilton, a clarinetist and long-time friend of Pee Wee Russell, has of the time when he knew Mary and Pee Wee, and of jazz in the District of Columbia. Read the article. Claude Williams, National Treasure    From the January 1999 Tailgate Ramblings During a White House ceremony in October, 90 year old jazz violinist Claude Williams received a National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Endowment gives these awards annually to honor artists nominated for keeping alive American folk traditions-their (and our) cultural heritage. Read the article.

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