A Note of Clarification
To the Editor:
I just got around to reading the May issue (June is still waiting—I’m behind!) and found your Bob Erdos obit on page 31, which mentions that with my help, you've got 80 Stomp Off CDs available for streaming. It’s always good to see one’s name in print in a positive light, but for the life of me I can't remember providing the help you mention. I have remastered all the Stomp Off LPs to CD/mp3; I sent copies of the hard drive containing them to [artist] Joe Busam and [Hot Jazz Saturday Night host] Rob Bamberger, and I posted them to the dixieland jazz group on Usenet: could that be what you have?
I went looking on your web sites for streaming Stomp Off music, but couldn’t find it anywhere. And on your Radiola page, you have a “record labels we like” section that includes Stomp Off, but the link is dead, as it points to the long-defunct World's Records section on Stomp Off.
There is a stompoffrecords.com, but it doesn’t do much beyond pointing to my own Stomp Off site, at stompoff.dickbaker.org, which has info about Stomp Off's past releases and order forms for those still in print, as well as my original heavily annotated research notes for the last edition of the Stomp Off Tune Titles and Composers Index—you might find it interesting.
This reminds me of a previous time I was surprised to find my name in print. In the
