[TPIN] Mike Vax's comments regarding liner notes

[William Ash]

Here's my liner note anecdote.

I got my first Roy Eldridge album (vinyl LP) when I was in high school. In 
the liner notes, Roy was quoted as saying, "I love to hear a note cracking."

Well, cool, I thought, Roy knows that sometimes you try for a note and 
don't quite get it, but he appreciates that you're trying and pushing 
yourself. For years -- decades -- I remembered this quote and relied on it 
for moral support whenever I needed it after a particularly heinous crack.

Fast forward about 25 years, to a few years ago. I pulled out that Roy 
Eldridge LP and played it again, and read the liner notes again. It 
actually says "I love to hear a note CRACKLING" (emphasis added). Roy was 
not defending any imprecise attacks, he just likes some sizzle in the 
sound! And all those years, I thought it was OK to crack because Roy said 
so....

(Possibly in my defense, I will add that I just looked at the LP again and 
"crackling" was hyphenated and split over two lines like this:

I love to hear a note crack-
ling

which might have made it easier to miss the L. Maybe.)

Oh well. Gotta go practice my attacks now.


Bill Ash


At 02:13 PM 2/2/2007 -0600, Travis Wilson wrote:
>it is amazing the "notes" i remember, and I suspect that many of us remember.