The High Fidelity Art Of Jim Flora
Irwin Chusid, based in Hoboken, NJ, is a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described “landmark preservationist.” Since 1975, Chusid has been a DJ on free-form radio station WFMU in New Jersey. He is the author of Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. He has produced landmark reissues of the music of composer/bandleader/electronic music pioneer  Raymond Scott, Space Age Pop avatar Esquivel, the Langley Schools Music  Project, and has salvaged the careers of now-celebrated icons like Jim Flora.Barbara Economon is a digital media specialist at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and a former radio host on KFAI. She provides all image restoration for the Flora collections and produces fine art prints of selected works.Jim Flora was born in 1914 in Ohio and passed away in 1998 in Connecticut.