The Ken Grayson Mills Project
The Hidden History of Ken Grayson Mills, Icon Records,
Preservation Hall
and Preservation Hall in Exile
by Richard Ekins
Ken Grayson Mills in front of Perseverance (Icon) Hall,
734 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, September 1962.
Photograph by Eric J. Brown, courtesy of Per Oldaeus
| Part 1 | 'Lacroixrecords.com and the Ken Grayson Mills Project: An Announcement' |
| Part 2 | 'Ken Grayson Mills, Icon Records and the Origins of Second Wave New Orleans Jazz Revivalism' |
| Part 3 | 'In Praise of Ken Grayson Mills (1937-2004). Kid Thomas, Kid Howard and the 'Jazz Report' record reviews with notes on the early history of Preservation Hall' |
| Part 4 | 'Lesser-known aspects of the Legacy of Ken Grayson Mills. Preservation Hall Jazz Band touring at 'The Best Address in Cleveland'. The 'Eureka' Report, with notes from Thomas N Stagg' |
| Part 5 | 'Ken Grayson Mills, Icon Records and the Mike Dine/504 Records Connection. Mike Dine (1938-2016). Founder and owner of 504 Records (1978-2016)' |
| Part 6 | 'Ken Grayson Mills, Icon Records and the New Orleans/West Coast Connection' |
| Part 7 | 'Ken Grayson Mills and Icon Hall, 734 St. Louis Street, New Orleans: A reminiscence from Big Bill Bissonnette, with further notes on Icon Records, Icon Hall and Perseverance Hall' |
| Part 8 | 'Mills on Mills and Icon Records: The Letters of Ken Grayson Mills to Alan Solman' |
| Part 9 | 'The New Orleans 'Jazzology' of Ken Grayson Mills: Mills on George H. Buck's American Music CDs' |
| Part 10 | 'A Final Flurry: Ken Grayson Mills, Icon Records and Jeunes Amis Hall, with a Footnote on 'The Outsider' and the Return of the Repressed' |
| Part 11 | 'Preservation Hall: The Rest of the Story by Ken Grayson Mills', Introduced, Illustrated and Annotated by Richard Ekins, with a Footnote by Larissa Mills |
| Part 12 | 'Ken Grayson Mills: Icon Records Discography 2018' |
| Part 13 | 'The Causation, Practice and Power of New Orleans Jazz': Introducing an Unpublished Paper by Ken Grayson Mills of Icon Records |
| Part 14 | 'The Lord Richard New Orleans Sessions Volume 8. Ken Grayson Mills – an Epilogue 504/LaCroix CD98' |
| Part 15 | 'Ken Grayson Mills and Richard Knowles, with a note on the Origins of Icon Hall' |
| Part 16 | 'Steve Angrum, Preservation Hall and the Photographs of Lyle Bongé' |
| Part 17 | 'In Praise of Steve Angrum (1895-1961): A Poem and Annotated Discography' |
| Part 18 | 'Kid Sheik, Barbara Reid, Ken Grayson Mills and the First Television Filming at Preservation Hall, with an Afterword from Larissa Mills' |
| Part 19 | 'Odes on Music': Ken Grayson Mills, Jazz Journalism and 'The Daily Tar Heel' |
| Part 20 | 'On the Origins of Second Wave New Orleans Jazz Revivalism: Ken Grayson Mills, Barbara Reid and Lyle Bongé at the 1960 Civil Rights Party, 726 St. Peter Street' |
| Part 21 | 'Ken Grayson Mills, the Start of the New Orleans Kitty Halls, and the Final Months at Perseverance Hall' |
| Part 22 | 'Letter to the Editor: Ken Grayson Mills on Jim Crow, New Orleans Musicians and Preservation Hall' |
Alternate takes on the Origins of Preservation Hall |
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| Take 1 | 'In Praise of Mike Dine – Mike Dine (1938–2016) A Dedication and Tribute' |
| Take 2 | 'On the Origins of the Larry Borenstein Sessions at Associated Artists Studio, 726 St. Peter Street, New Orleans... A Reminiscence from Charlie DeVore' |
| Take 3 | 'Larry Borenstein on Art, New Orleans Music and the Origins of Preservation Hall • Part 1' |
| Take 4 | 'Larry Borenstein on Art, New Orleans Music and the Origins of Preservation Hall • Part 2' |
| Take 5 | 'Larry Borenstein, Kid Stormy Weather and Charlie 'Little Red' Lajoie... A Letter from Tom Stagg' |
Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter Street, New Orleans, Summer 1961, courtesy of Kelley Edmiston. Left to right: Kid Thomas, Sammy Penn, George Lewis, Emanuel Sayles
Icon Hall, 734 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, February to early June 1962,
courtesy of Tony Standish and Peter Haby
Barbara Reid Collection, courtesy of Kelley Edmiston