Allison Miner

Elizabeth Allison Miner ( * as Elizabeth Allison Crowther, November 23, 1949 in Baltimore, † December 23, 1995 in New Orleans) was an American music manager, known as one of the founder and leader of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Miner grew up in Daytona Beach and went with the Allman Brothers to school and was friends with them. She sang with the band as A. Milner and the Allman Joys. In 1966 she moved to New Orleans where she worked in the Jazz Archive at Tulane University with Dick Allen. As George Wein in 1970 organized the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Dick Allen recommended it and Quint Davis wine for local support. She helped in the organization of the festival in the first difficult five years and founded its archive.

From the mid- 1970s, she was manager of Professor Longhair, whose band was directed by her then-husband Andrew Kaslow. With Kaslow they had two sons. Mid-1980s, they moved to Cleveland, where she had a radio show with music from New Orleans ( Cajun music, zydeco ) on the transmitter at Case Western University. She also managed the music schools development in Cleveland and headed the National Folk Festival in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. In 1988 she returned to New Orleans and was again involved in the Jazz Fest. On one of the platforms they presented musical history of New Orleans in public discussions with the musicians (Music Heritage Stage) - it was later named after her (the only one of the twelve main stages, which are named after a person ). She was involved in the establishment of the radio station WWOZ and advocated that the festival remained a non-profit organization and the musicians were paid appropriately.

In 1995, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

In addition to Professor Longhair she managed, other musicians such as the Rebirth Brass Band and the Wild Magnolias.

1997 appeared posthumously in her book Jazz Fest Memories at Pelican.