Mistakes in covers, booklets...

[Chuck Nessa]

On 10/22/2021 at 2:18 AM, EKE BBB said:

Not sure if this one has been posted, I just discovered this Kinney Dorham trumpetist:

The cd contains 2 alternates.

Dorham's first name is McKinley.

Edited December 3, 2022 by Chuck Nessa

[Larry Kart]

Then and now, it still kind of amazes me that Savoy/Salim got that group of people together in the studio. The wild card, now that I think of it, might have been Buster Cooper. Maybe Chino Pozo too. And Max Roach as a sideman. Did the first two ever record with any of the other guys? Whatever, it worked like gangbusters. (Yes, Dorham was a Roach sideman.)

Another one that gives me a somewhat (but only somewhat) similar feeling is Bennie Green and Gene Ammons' fabulous "The Swingin'est" (Veejay), with Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Nat Adderly, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Jones, and Albert Heath.  Chicago DJ Sid McCoy was the A&R man. Perhaps the Basie band was in town (Foster, Wess, Jones).

[mjzee]

On 6/19/2022 at 6:26 PM, medjuck said:

Just reading "From Swing to Bop" -a great book btw-  and Ira Gitler explains that he was originally called "Kinney, short for McKinley".

In Jack Chambers's biography of Miles, "Milestones," Dorham is consistently referred-to as Kinney.  His index entry says "Dorham, Kinney (Kenny)."

[T.D.]

1 hour ago, mjzee said:

In Jack Chambers's biography of Miles, "Milestones," Dorham is consistently referred-to as Kinney.  His index entry says "Dorham, Kinney (Kenny)."

I always had the impression (too lazy to look up sources) that Dorham, early in his career, was frequently referred to as Kinney.

[JSngry]

He was. 

[Big Beat Steve]

I wonder if the one below has been posted or mentioned here before. I guess it ranks as the longest-standing album cover "mistake" ever perpetuated through the generations. (Of course I realize it all was a markting ploy by Verve at the time, and the "explanation" - or excuse - on the back cover liner notes reads VERY lame and identifies the place incorrectly again, so .... 😄)

As will be known, the contents on this LP originated nowhere near London and were recorded live not in Stockholm (as the liner notes claim) but in Göteborg (Sweden). Seeing how often reissues have "corrected" the packagings of earlier pressings elsewhere, it is strange that not even subsequent  CD reissues with the original cover photo ever saw fit to change the title to something tongue-in-cheek like "Basie NOT in London". 😁

As I just saw in a period music magazine, no wonder they did pick up on this misappropriation in their ads for the Swedish release of this:

"- the much talked-about LP with the "false designation of origin" - recorded in Göteborg."

 

Edited January 30, 2023 by Big Beat Steve

[sidewinder]

8 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

I wonder if the one below has been posted or mentioned here before. I guess it ranks as the longest-standing album cover "mistake" ever perpetuated through the generations. (Of course I realize it all was a markting ploy by Verve at the time, and the "explanation" - or excuse - on the back cover liner notes reads VERY lame and identifies the place incorrectly again, so .... 😄)

As will be known, the contents on this LP originated nowhere near London and were recorded live not in Stockholm (as the liner notes claim) but in Göteborg (Sweden). Seeing how often reissues have "corrected" the packagings of earlier pressings elsewhere, it is strange that not even subsequent  CD reissues with the original cover photo ever saw fit to change the title to something tongue-in-cheek like "Basie NOT in London". 😁

As I just saw in a period music magazine, no wonder they did pick up on this misappropriation in their ads for the Swedish pressing of this:

"- the much talked-about LP with the "false designation of origin" - recorded in Göteborg."

 

Near enough, I guess ! 😆

Rare picture there these days of a Pearly King and Queen. Once a fairly regular sight in the Smoke, I guess these days they have been ‘cancelled’..

Edited January 29, 2023 by sidewinder

[colinmce]

Just noticed this one while I was filing some things away yesterday:

3 Points and A Mountain ... Plus FMP CD 107

Brötzmann- Mengelberg - Benning 

[JSngry]

Which one will the mountain bless? 

[UKjazzer]

On 6/11/2020 at 1:11 AM, Ken Dryden said:

Evidently liner note writer Mark Gardner doesn't bother with checking the composer credits on a number of SteepleChase CDs for which he has written liner notes.

"Old Folks," composed by Willard Robison, is only credited to the lyricist, Dedette Lee Hill, though her name is misspelled on several CDs where this song appears, either as Dedate Hill or Dedate Lee Hill:

SteepleChase Jam Session Vol. 1, Vol. 9, Vol. 14

I'm trying to remember the SteepleChase CD where John Coltrane's "Locomotion" is credited to Thelonious Monk, another with liner notes by the hapless Mark Gardner.

One of the biggest howlers was the Paris All-Stars Tribute to Charlie Parker on A&M, which misidentified the opening track as Dizzy Gillespie's "Birks' Works," nearly every reviewer knew that it was Charlie Parker's "Steeplechase."

 

But see:

https://musicsavvy.com/who-really-wrote-nardis/

And there are other accounts of Davis claiming other people's music: Gene di Novi, in his excellent autobiography, describes how he pinched Chuck Wayne's song Sonny and renamed it Solar...

 

[Niko]

On his excellent substack, Lewis Porter has quite a few essays about Miles the composer, including a three part series about Nardis with the bottom line being that Miles is the likely composer ...

https://lewisporter.substack.com/t/miles-davis

Edited 11 hours ago by Niko

[Ken Dryden]

Bill Evans never claimed to have written “Nardis,” though he recorded it with Cannonball Adderley and made it a staple of his repertoire. It seems to have started being credited as the pianist’s composition on bootleg LPs of the seventies, sometimes as well on later legitimate releases. I’ve caught a number of liner note errors by Mark Gardner over the years, the worst being confusing John Coltrane’s “Locomotion” with being written by Thelonious Monk, who wrote an unrelated piece called “Locomotive.”

I previously  read Lewis Porter’s account of labels assigning Miles credit for works he didn’t write and it depends who is doing the research at the label for a release. Even Resonance has messed up on a few song titles and composer credits, as we have seen. Clark Terry was credited with writing “Wham” on one release and he confirmed to me that it was not his work.

[UKjazzer]

Have a read of Di Novi's book.  It's pretty convincing on Chuck Wayne and Solar.