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Have this, have not spun in a long time. Thanks for reminding me!

Spoiler: Sure seems that way (and not the first time I've read about AI slop proliferating on the platform) I finally opened a Spotify account last year, but most musicians I've talked to about streaming favor Apple, saying that the audio quality and musician compensation is better. (Apple's basic monthly streaming service cost is also two dollars cheaper than Spotify's.) I have no illusions about Apple being any kind of paragon of corporate virtue ("corporate" and "virtue" are pretty much antithetical anyway. Corporations are out to make money, period, and making even more money will always trump--er, win out over any kind of greater good), but do other posters have an opinion about the pros and cons of each service? Or others that are available?

Good stuff!

Me too! And also digging into Ian Carr's Miles Davis biography.

Bach - French Suites No.4, No.5, No.6 - Andrei Garilov

Duduka Da Fonseca “Samba Jazz Fantasia” Art Music cd Duduka’s first as a leader. With some great guests! John Scofield, Joe Lovano, David Sanchez, Claudio Roditi, Tom Harrell, Helio Alves, Kenny Werner, Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta, Eddie Gomez, Maucha Adnet et al

Cornelius ‘Kees’ Hazevoet is a Dutch multiinstrumentist (piano, trumpet, clarinet) who has done thorough and extensive research on Don Byas. His discography and chronology in two parts is a groundbreaking source and reference for all-things Byas. He is listed as the main contributor in the acknowledgments section of the Chapman bio (btw, I am also listed 😜). I have exchanged a lot of information with Kees over the years. He is one the nicest and most generous researchers I have come across in my never-ending Tete Montoliu project. And he is a member of these forums, under the name of Caravan. And yes, Chapman has screwed up the right chronological order in some places. And he has also included some factual mistakes on the years spent by Don Byas in Spain and Portugal.

Yes “Tales from Topographic Oceans” Super Deluxe Edition, disc 7

I see we agree. (As elsewhere before ...) I also value footnotes that indicate the sources and - above all - provide additional info (that would be of use to those interested in the finest details but might throw more "straight-ahead" readers off course and therefore is not necessarily needed in the main text). But what annoyed me somewhat in the Byas bio was that not so few of the numerous footnotes by Chapman (approx. 965 footnotes for a 180-page biography really is A LOT!) only served to indicate that facts and dates about recordings, gigs, meetings, personal events were taken from two overriding sources by a Dutchman named Hazevoet (a discography and a "chronology" that - without having seen it - must be something like the diaries/itineraries by Ken Vail). This does not, however, tell much to those readers who do NOT own these sources. And in a book like this that is no Ph-D. thesis there is not that much need to show off over and over again that you are able to cite your sources in an academically correct way. A general statement (in a prominent place in the book) that info like this was taken from the Hazevoet sources would have been sufficient IMO. Most readers would probably give the author the benefit of trusting that he checked and reported the discographical details, dates and places correctly anyway. (Though, BTW, depite all these footnotes Chapman here and there screwed up the timeline anyway )

Yes, I would say that he follows the same approach with verbatim quotations, hence listing myriads of references in footnotes. I am also an anorak with regard to including proper references and giving due credit to your sources, but in this case it may be too much for a ca. 200-pages bio. Both bios are very valuable assets, being the first full-length bios of Byas and Hodges, but both also have their lights and shadows.

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Did Chapman go as overboard with his footnotes (often for no gain in information to the reader) in the Hodges bio as he did in the Byas bio?

Just finished Con Chapman's bio of Don Byas. And just started to revisit Chapman's bio of Johnny Hodges, at the same time I continue my journey through Mark Lehmstedt's bio of Art Tatum.