Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: Congratulations to Scott Yanow on another great profile, Bud Freeman, in the July Syncopated Times. Your description of what he brought as

A Welcome Perspective To the Editor: Larry Melton’s “Blowing off the Dust” in the June issue was a welcome perspective on the impacts of the

Glenn Miller: a Personal Note One’s sense of personal history sort of begins with one’s birth. It was only seventy-one years after I came into this world,

Peter Ecklund was a freshman at Yale when I first met him in 1964. At the time, I was a medical student, playing a weekly

To the Editor: Enjoyed the March issue of Syncopated Times (as usual). Just want to point out a misidentification in New Orleans Music Observed: The

The many letters received on the Dixieland essays are gathered here: Reader Responses to “Reconsidering Dixieland Jazz: How the Name has Harmed the Music” Forget

Note: some of these letters were in reply to Is the term Dixieland Jazz Racist?, which was printed in September 2019. Most of them are

The Dreaded D-word To the Editor: Your editorial on the term “Dixieland” was right on. I have been lobbying the Portland Dixieland Jazz Society to

– And the Issues Keep Rolling in! – To the Editor: I have grown tired of the way people use the word “issue” to mean

– More on Hayakawa – To the Editor: As you said in the Jan. issue (“Baby, It’s Colder Inside,” January 2019), it’s a welcome relief

[The readers refer to these two items about the California wildfires: The Fire This Time & Please Forward—If Possible] To the Editor: Thank you for saving The

To the Editor: In “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (TST, November 2018), I used Marv Jenkins, Dinah Washington’s tenor sax man, to point

– (Some) Old Instruments Are Better – To the Editor: With regard to Professor Cunningham’s article in the September issue, as an OLD guitar and

The Algorithm Is No Friend To the Editor: July is a great issue. For starters, there was the always reliable and insightful Scott Yanow’s profile

Discs and Discoveries To the Editor: Your May issue got me to listen to Bria Skonberg and Andy Schumm—both for the first, but certainly not

This Is What We Do To the Editor: The enclosed check for $100 should be allocated – $55 for a two year renewal of my

Cortland, not Corning To the Editor: Thank you for the front-page article on Colin Hancock, an amazing young musician and more whom I’m privileged to

Pensacola? Vout-O-Reenie! To the Editor: I’ve worked with the Public History Department at UWF in Pensacola and have helped the students do some research about

– Not Shellac? Alack! – To the Editor: You mentioned Diamond Discs recently (“A Diamond Disc as Big as the Ritz,” August 2017) and wrote

The last Moldye Figge? To the Editor: I read the letter from Lawrence Cannon (Readers’ Correspondence, October 2017) and realized that he is a grouch,

“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

Banjos Aweigh on JazzFest at Sea To the Editor: As you now know, there will not be a 2018 JazzSea Cruise in January. Although it

To the Editor: Dick Hawk, the Torch Carrier of good jazz in the Midwest passed on a few weeks ago. Dick had employed Lynn Zimmer