Misplaced copyrights found!

[bertrand]

One of the most frustrating things that ever happened in the course of my research on jazz copyrights was when a three-page request (about 50 tunes) went missing. The original request was in 1998. The Librarian who took the request was ill off and on after that, so I could never pin him down as to what had happened to this request. I would try requesting it again periodically, but no luck.

A few years later, I found out my request had been mixed up with someone else's, so I assumed it had been sent back to the warehouse and never refiled. Again, periodic enquiries to the Librarian in question yielded nothing.

Well, I go over there today and lo and behold, the music was added to my reserve pile! Apparently the Librarian retired (I knew that) and died last year (I did not know that), and they finally cleaned up his desk and tons of music was found. I guess he got really ill and never really straightened out his stuff before leaving.

He's not just an anonymous desk clerk, by the way. Check this out:

http://music.loyno.edu/encore/2004/sens.html

Anyway, from a jazz viewpoint, I have now located some very interesting stuff including:

Freddie Redd's original manuscripts for The Connection (plus the stuff from Redd's Blues)

Pete LaRoca tunes (including the controversial 'Basra')

4 Moncur tunes (the two from One Step Beyond and the two jazztet tunes)

Blue Mitchell tunes (including 'Fungii Mama')

Some Frank Strozier (one piece, although checked off as found, is actually missing)

I knew this stuff would appear one day. Seven years sounds like a long time, though.

Bertrand.

Edited May 17, 2005 by bertrand

[bertrand]

The link does not seem to work, but you can find the page by googling the name Charles Sens.

Bertrand.

[king ubu]

you had a bracket in your link, this should work now:

http://music.loyno.edu/encore/2004/sens.html

fascinating (and sad) story!