[78-L] Covers and doodoo (was: In The Mood)

[Cary Ginell]

Actually, his book isn't all that bad. You can't condemn an entire book based on one ignorant use of a word that few people think about anyway (although it's a "slowly he turned" point with Biel). Looking at his bio, I see that Nimmo is no nincompoop. He is defined as a "cultural anthropologist," has published seven books, and is professor emeritus at California State University Hayward. The book is very well annotated, drawing from extensive research, unpublished letters, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues of the sisters. Theer is a filmography and complete documentation of their radio and television appearances. Despite all this, he has a very strange way of doing discographies. He lists them as opus numbers, including for each listing, song title, orchestra leader, record label, record number, location, and date. No songwriters, no master numbers, no take info, no personnel. I would consider this a detailed listing, but certainly not a discography in the ARSC sense of the word. So he's not a record guy, but a historian who did a remarkable job on a major performing group that had not been tackled by anyone else. He even printed Down Beat's name correctly. Most people who don't know anything about jazz write it as one word. So I'll give him an A-minus for effort-with no "cover" charge.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> 
> But more to the point, who the hell is H.Arlo Nimmo and why should we
> pay attention to anything he says? With a name like Arlo it soulds like
> he was born in the late 60s to two pot-addled hippies, so how the hell
> could he have known how the phrase was used in the 50s when it was
> coined.
> 
> > 
> THESE WRITERS ARE GODDAMN IDIOTS. Anybody want to join me in tossing
> some doodoo at H.Arlo Nimmo and others of his ilk? 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 

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