“Muskat?” Oh, Man!
To the Editor:
I’m currently reading the September issue of Syncopated Times, where in the “Jazz Jottings” column I found mention of Kid Ory’s “Muskat Ramble.”
By coincidence, I’ve been working on a project for the Potomac River Jazz Club to scan the earlier issues of their newsletter, “Tailgate Ramblings,” to PDF so they can post them on their web site. So I remembered the September 1974 issue, which contained research by Ed Fishel on that Ory composition. And I also remembered my own research years later when I was working on the “Tune Titles and Composers” index for Stomp Off. It’s definitely “Muskrat Ramble.”
If you’d like to see the entire Stomp Off index, which covers all the 3,836 titles that appeared on Stomp Off, you can find it at my Stomp Off page at stompoff.dickbaker.org/
Dick Baker
dick@dickbaker.org
That is a regrettable error. I have no one to blame but my proofreader, who requires new glasses. I don’t pay him enough for the frames he’d really like, so we’ll all suffer under his myopia a while longer. Consider though that Muskat (alternate spelling) is not only the capital of Oman, but is a variety of grape used to make raisins. Coincidentally, there is a so
