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MR. BROWN (OR ANYONE ELSE): WOULD YOU PLEASE CLEAR UP THE ONGOING MYSTERY SURROUNDING TED ONO? THIS GENTLEMAN HAS DEVELOPED AN IRRITATING HABIT OF PROMISING AND NEVER DELIVERING. FOR EXAMPLE: In 2000, Ono writes in the liner notes for the CD "Bea Wain, Complete Recordings Vol. 1: You Can Depend On Me" that in 2001, Baldwin Street Music "is looking forward to producing next year" new recordings by Miss Wain. RESULT: NOTHING. In 2002, Ono writes in the liner notes for the CD "Bea Wain, Complete Recordings Vol. 2: That's How I Love the Blues" that listeners can expect not only a third-volume CD release of Bea Wain's complete recordings, but also "another Baldwin Street Music release, which will be titled "Meet Beatrice Wain/Bea Wain--The Early Jazz Sides 1934-1937." RESULT IN BOTH CASES: NOTHING. In 2006, Ono contributes a post to allaboutjazz.com, stating that Baldwin Street Music has (and I paraphrase) been on vacation for a year. He also writes that "[his] new company Ted Ono Productions will take over the Baldwin Street Music label on July 1, 2006." RESULT IN BOTH CASES: NOTHING. In 2007, ("the ghost of") Ted Ono speaks and Don Brown transcribes the following post for the organissimo jazz forum: "Will you let [organissimo readers] know the following: I am preparing to begin producing a new series of Baldwin Street Music releases and continuing the Lee Wiley Completists' series on Tono (including reissuing the first four volumes). My new website www.tedono.com will be launched in September." RESULT ACROSS THE BOARD: NOTHING. AND I AM PARTICULARLY PERTURBED AT HIS DROPPING AT LEAST THREE PROMISED BEA WAIN PROJECTS. CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHEN THIS ONO FELLOW WILL EVER BE PREPARED TO STAND AND DELIVER? THANKS FOR READING, BRENT ROHDE