Music Historian David Sager Highlights Foo Foo Fest

Pensacola can expect an informative and pleasant treat when David Sager, trombonist and the Library of Congress’ curator of its Jukebox Project appears as part of Foo Foo Fest. Sager is an accomplished jazz trombonist whose specialty is early jazz. He has made tours of the US and Europe and is a regular instructor at New Orleans jazz workshop each summer. He is a curator of the Library of Congress’ Jukebox project whose goal is to preserve significant early recordings which are now in the public domain—currently 1922 and earlier. On Sunday afternoon, November 13, there will be a free lecture by Mr. Sager at the downtown West Florida Public Library from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sager will outline the details of the project which preserves not only early jazz music but poetry and speeches as well. Pensacola’s own Dixieland Dandies will perform examples of early jazz and it is expected that Mr. Sager will also join in some of the numbers. Friends of the West Florida Library will provide light refreshments during intermission. This should be an informative and entertaining free event. Visitors should take the opportunity to visit the Jazz Room on the second floor of the library. This is a long-standing cooperative effort of Jazz Pensacola, The Friends of the West Florida Public Library, and WFPL. It contains jazz books, CDs and DVDs and art-work currently valued at $19,000. On Mond