[78-L] I am definitely in the wrong business

[David Lennick]

I knew it from the single and didn't find the LP till much later. And bad edits 
were par for the course in those days. Or more recent days..the one in the Star 
Wars Theme drove me crazy, but it was only audible on certain speakers. Never 
could figure that one.

I have an on-the-spot recording I made of Moe Koffman and the Orford String 
Quartet sight-reading an arrangement of SSB at a press conference in 
Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Absolutely gorgeous. And impossible to 
clear for broadcast or any other use. Oh well, I can enjoy it..

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Yeah....I'd hear 'SSB' on radio a few years ago, and I'd always wince when I
> heard the chop.  My parents had the original COOL AND HOT SAX LP that has it
> full-length, so that's what I'd grown up with.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, I think Lord is wrong about the single Swinging Shepherd Blues having
>> been recorded in New York a year after the album, although you'd think Tom
>> Lord
>> being Canadian wouldn't trip over that one. Moe once told me he was in the
>> studio when they edited the track to make the single and he walked over to
>> Ed
>> Bickert with a tangled ball of tape and said "Here's your solo."
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>> If that's not rhetorical....Koffman (1928-2001) was a Canadian jazz
>>> musician.  He played flute, soprano, alto and tenor saxes, and clarinet.
>>> His original 'Swingin' shepherd blues' was a hit single featuring him on
>>> flute, from 1957 or 1958.   Very likely to be found on a Canadian 78.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:01 PM, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Outrageous.
>>>>
>>>> Uhhh..by the way...who is Moe Koffman?
>>>>
>>>> Al Simmons
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:03 PM
>>>> Subject: [78-L] I am definitely in the wrong business
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I was looking up a fairly early Moe Koffman single, and came across
>> this:
>>>>> http://www.cd-choice.com/cds/k/koffmanmoe.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> What the..! Is somebody charging these humongous bucks for a copy of
>> the
>>>>> record
>>>>> and a CD transfer? Just about every one of these can be found anywhere
>> in
>>>>> Canada for a buck or two..naturally I don't see either of his two Main
>>>>> Stem 78s
>>>>> listed..
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>