Letters to the Editor August 2020
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
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
At the New Orleans Trad Jazz Camp that Banu Gibson described in her article in the December issue, there was an auction to benefit their
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