[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[Glenn Longwell]

I bought a copy of this a couple years ago at an estate sale along with Rust's Jazz Records, ADBD, The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, BG on Record and host of other books about Armstrong, Bechet, Mezzrow's book, etc.  All for about $30.  And the funny thing is I pulled out Lost Chords just the other day and started reading it finally.  Great stuff.

The sad part of the story is that I showed up in the afternoon after someone tipped me off about all the records there.  I somehow missed it in the paper and it was only a few miles from my house.  Right off the bat they were telling anyone for $50 they take ALL the records and it took a couple hours before someone bought them.  There were several thousand and mostly jazz, probably half LPs and half 78s.  Ouch.  I showed up right after the guy who bought them took his last car load home.  

I think the guy was a trumpet player.  There was so much music related stuff there and the house was loaded with books.  Sadly, much of it was musty and not worth bringing home but was very happy to come home with the books I did.

Glenn

--- On Tue, 3/15/11, DanKj <MLK402 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: DanKj <MLK402 at verizon.net>
Subject: [78-L] Lost Chords,  lost and found
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:44 PM

  As the 2 copies at my local library have been perpetually 'out' every time I look, I bought a copy of LOST CHORDS online. 
$11.98 with shipping, like-new condition .... and it was withdrawn from the Evansville IN lyeberry.  No more White Jazz for 
those Evansvillians - I checked the website.

 Evansville is probably doing the same as in Buffalo: dumbing-down the collection, pulling books which aren't borrowed very 
often & therefore "not popular".  Easy, popular crud I can get from a magazine rack ; to me, a public library's purpose is 
to disseminate the more difficult, in-depth, and even arcane information and history.    Instead, my library systems cater 
more and more to Mencken's "Boobousie", who avoid education at all costs . 

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