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10 DOWNBEAT NOVEMBER 2010<br />
chords & discords <br />
Ray’s The Finest<br />
For your finest 2010 feature, I nominate<br />
the Ray Charles masterpiece (October).<br />
DeNNIS heNDLeY<br />
MILWAukee, WIS.<br />
Tops Trombonist<br />
I would like to thank DownBeat’s critics for<br />
voting me number one on the Critics Poll<br />
(August) and the lovely plaque that says<br />
it. To all the trombonists and everybody<br />
involved in and supporting the music, you<br />
have my sincere appreciation, and let us all<br />
continue this great effort into the future.<br />
ROSWeLL RuDD<br />
NeW YORk<br />
Frankie Trumbauer’s Place<br />
I strongly congratulate the Veterans Committee<br />
for the outstanding job they have<br />
been doing in voting long-overdue jazz<br />
legends into the DownBeat Hall of Fame<br />
(“Critics Poll,” August). I would like to point<br />
out one musician whose credentials may<br />
not be known—saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer.<br />
Lester Young has said that among his idols, he<br />
preferred Trumbauer because he told a story.<br />
Budd Johnson had said that everybody knew<br />
Trumbauer was the baddest cat playing. Franz<br />
Jackson told me that he can still play Trumbauer’s<br />
solo on “Singing The Blues.” I doubt there is<br />
another white musician who can claim that kind<br />
of influence on black musicians.<br />
JIMMIe JONeS<br />
BeTTeNDORF, IOWA<br />
Blind Fun At JEN<br />
I can’t thank DownBeat enough for this exceptional<br />
exposure (“Student Music Guide,”<br />
October). I truly enjoyed meeting publisher<br />
Frank Alkyer and doing a live Blindfold Test at<br />
the Jazz Education Network conference in St.<br />
Louis. It was fun.<br />
RuFuS ReID<br />
TeANeCk, N.J.<br />
Drum Hits<br />
John McDonough provided great historical<br />
summaries of Veterans Committee Hall of Famers<br />
Baby Dodds, Chick Webb and Philly Joe<br />
Jones (“Critics Poll,” August). Give the drummer<br />
some—for a sense of history and taste.<br />
JIM CRAWFORD<br />
CARLSBAD, CALIF.<br />
Breathtaking Fred Anderson<br />
DownBeat’s article on Fred Anderson captured<br />
him well (October). Fred is going to live on because<br />
so many musicians and devoted followers<br />
believed in him. Fred practiced every day that he<br />
could. The last time I spoke to him on the phone,<br />
probably six months before he passed away,<br />
he said: “Lyn, I am playing the best I have ever<br />
played.” That kinda’ took my breath away.<br />
LYN hORTON<br />
WORThINGTON, MASS.<br />
Brown’s First ‘Spring’<br />
In Jimi Durso’s transcription of Clifford Brown’s<br />
solo on “Joy Spring” (“Woodshed,” September),<br />
he states that the original recording of the<br />
song was by the Max Roach-Clifford Brown<br />
Quintet for Pacific Jazz Records. In fact, the first<br />
recording of the song was by Clifford Brown in<br />
a septet of various Los Angeles musicians for<br />
Pacific Jazz Records on July 12, 1954. The<br />
more famous quintet recording with Roach<br />
was recorded a month later (Aug. 6) for EmArcy<br />
Records. Most people have long forgotten the<br />
first, and much-less-known, version of the song<br />
which has no correlation to the musical value<br />
of the recording.<br />
TOMMY hARDING<br />
TP.hARDING@ShAW.CA<br />
Corrections<br />
The University of West Florida is<br />
located in Pensecola, not Jacksonville<br />
(“Education Guide,” October).<br />
The title of the film that Ola Kvernberg<br />
scored should have been cited as The<br />
Experiment (“European Scene,” October).<br />
Chris Sheridan should have been listed<br />
as voting in the 58th Annual Critics Poll.<br />
DOWNBeAT ReGReTS The eRRORS.<br />
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