[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[Jeff Sultanof]

All Dick was trying to do was to point some light in an area (figuratively
speaking) that he felt had been overlooked: the influence of white jazz
musicians, particularly on black pioneers and legends. It turned out to be
politically incorrect, and he found out that the ones who screamed the
loudest didn't bother to read the book.

About the only thing that I felt was disappointing was his chapter on Benny
Goodman. He felt that Goodman should be represented, but that he was so well
served by Ross Firestone's biography and the work of Russ Connor that his
importance had already been expressed elsewhere. He played in the last band
Goodman led.

Interestingly, he was working on a biography on Ralph Peer before he
suffered a stroke and couldn't continue, but he was very excited. He'd
received verbal cooperation from Peer's family and was just delving into the
discographies of the artists he wanted to cover. He was particularly
impressed with the discographies of country music (which he did not name)
that he examined.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net> wrote:

> 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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