[TPIN] Mike Vax's comments regarding liner notes

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In a message dated 2/3/07 5:11:02 PM, tpin-request at tpin.okcu.edu writes:

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:29:15 -0500
From: William Ash <wdmash at optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Mike Vax's comments regarding liner notes
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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 >>

Hahahahahaha!!!!!   That's excellent.  Thank you for the
much needed laugh.

It is important to realize that young players who do NOT
experience the same "total picture" that coma with LP's
(all their artwork and liner notes) will not know that
added pleasure, and will NOT know that something more
could accompany their listening and learning enjoyment.
Whipped Cream and Other Delights - need I say more?

Richard Waddell