Howard Fry

[andy.bole]

Anyone know much about Howard Fry and where i can buy his album Gypsy Mandolin.

[glauber]

Folkways, as an on-demand CD-R. Buy it already, that's one of the best mandolin albums ever, and this isn't an exaggeration.

[glauber]

The CD comes with liner notes that have some biographical information. Other than that, i don't know much. His mandolin got sold on eBay recently. There was a thread in the Cafe which had a lot of gushing and a little additional information on Fry.

[Jim Garber]

Correct spelling of his name is Frye. His wife, Beverly, still plays in the New York Mandolin Orchestra and I saw her at the CMSA convention a few years ago.

You can get <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Gypsy-Mandolin-Howard-Frye-CD-New_W0QQitemZ4868777671QQihZ003QQcategoryZ307QQssP ageNameZWD
VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Gypsy Mandolin</a> from Michelle Garman who sells under Best Music Source on eBay. She also sells a biography of Frye by Norman Levine called <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Howard-Frye-And-Me-History-of-Mandolin-Great-Book_W0QQitemZ7355301903QQihZ016QQcategoryZ43

392QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Howard Frye and Me</a> and an LP (no CD available) of <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Howard-Frye-Classical-Mandolin-LP-Record-New-Sealed_W0QQitemZ4018439426QQihZ003QQcategoryZ

306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Howard Frye Classical Mandolin</a>.

Howard Frye died in 1967.

Jim