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Which is a great reason for publishing them on line. Steve Smolian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven C. Barr" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] original sequence of two Verve records > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> >> It's one in the same guy, but there are other contributors to > jazzdisco.org. >> Like I said, he's a nice guy as judged by our e-mail correspondence, so > I'm >> willing to cut him a lot of slack for at least putting this gigantic > amount >> of info online. His sources for wrong info in the jazzdisco.org sites are >> usually published discographies like that multi-book Mercury one. And, > I'll >> not lay all the blame on the discography authors and publishers because I >> think most myths and mistakes are due to misinterpretation of sketchy, >> disorganized or incomplete company records. Think of it this way -- what > if >> 24 tracks and months of sessions were the norm during the great days of > jazz >> (or course, I'd bet they wouldn't have been so great in that case!). > Imagine >> the reems of session documents to be lost! > One of the basic inevitabilities in discography is the fact that any > error(s) > made in the first available documentation of a specific body of recordings > will be accepted as gospel truth and repeated in subsequent discographic > works...while later corrections, even if accurate, will often be > forgotten or ignored! > > Steven C. Barr > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/137 - Release Date: 10/16/2005 > >