Mistakes in covers, booklets...

[Head Man]

a little different; years ago Bob Neloms came up to do a concert as part of a seminar I was doing in New Haven; I was giving the reporter his credits - worked with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus, a few gigs with Dexter Gordon, and even Smokey Robinson; well, when the story came out, the reporter reported that Ammons, Dexter, Robinson, and Mingus would be appearing with Bob at this concert. Fortunately, the audience was fairly hip and nobody seemed to notice or complain. Too bad, would have been some concert....

Ah, if we could only bring them back by writing about them......

[Jim R]

Just came across an error that's bugged me for a long time. It relates to Hank Garland's album "Jazz Winds From A New Direction". I don't know where the mistake originated, but at some point the song "Riot-Chous" (a bit of clever wordplay, combining the words "riot" and "righteous") became "Riot-Chorus". The latter title not only stuck around, but seems to be more commonly used now.

[mjzee]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this one yet. I saw it this morning when I got to this disc in the Jazz On Vogue box set. Theolonious?

[Jim R]

Just came across an error that's bugged me for a long time. It relates to Hank Garland's album "Jazz Winds From A New Direction". I don't know where the mistake originated, but at some point the song "Riot-Chous" (a bit of clever wordplay, combining the words "riot" and "righteous") became "Riot-Chorus". The latter title not only stuck around, but seems to be more commonly used now.

Forgot to post this:

[jlhoots]

I have a Venus CD where Lewis Nash is spelled Nush throughout.

[Jim R]

How about a Baron sandwich...

[Jim R]

[aparxa]

Louis Armstrong and Sydney Bechet with Clarence Williams Blue Five

 

From the set with  the longest album title in history (M. Cuscuna):

One from the unknown-to me Jazz Society Label, the other from the well-known Mosaic Label!

 

 

[aparxa]

"Adderely" on my Somethin' Else LP cover.

A  Mosaic booklet mentions "Joe Costanzo". Is it a typo or  another diminutive for Jack?

[aparxa]

"Good Morning Headache", (Heartache) on Tyner's Remembering John (Enja)

[EKE BBB]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned:

In the Candid CD version of "Charles Mingus ‎– Presents Charles Mingus"  (Candid ‎– CCD 79005, ℗ © 1997 Candid Productions Ltd. on disk itself), the booklet (which supposedly is a reprint of the original LP) gives wrong personnel on its back page: Booker Ervin instead of Eric Dolphy. Correct personnel is on the reissue back cover. 

 

[Big Beat Steve]

Just listening to the Mosaic "Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions" CD box set.

Someting's gone wrong in the booklet inside the box to accompany disc III:

In line with their session coding running from A to B through AA to AAA to ZZZ, the back cover lists the Deane Kincaide session as session R and the Scatman Crothers session as session S (plausibly so in accordance with the sequence of the tracks on the CD). Looking up the discographical details in the booklet, though, the Scatman Crothers session is listed as session R and the Deane Kincaide session as session S (in that order).

Whatsamatter, Mosaic? Your proofreader been taking five when the texts were okayed for printing?

[Hardbopjazz]

Here's a mistake that wasn't caught.

[Ken Dryden]

I wrote a series of liner note bios for a series of European compilations. Unfortunately I never saw the playlists or personnel, otherwise I would have made a lot of corrections for them. Nearly every liner note job I've had has had either spelling mistakes, missing instruments, wrong or missing song titles (like a medley that omits a song), incorrect or missing composers/lyricists in the information provided to me by the label or artist. Since my name is going on the final product, I like everything to be correct.

Of course, if we talk jazz books, no one seems to beat Stuart Nicholson for typos and outright errors.

[Jim R]

On 8/9/2017 at 8:20 AM, Hardbopjazz said:

Here's a mistake that wasn't caught.

Where's the mistake on this?  The photo orientation being flipped?  If so, that seems pretty tame.

 

In other guitar-related news, the penultimate track on the new Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly "Smokin' In Seattle" disc (Resonance label) was mis-identified.  It's a Jobim tune, but it's not "O Morro Nao Tem Vez", it's "O Amor Em Paz" (aka "Once I Loved").  I wonder if someone at Resonance initiated the mistake, or whether it goes back to 1966.

[Hardbopjazz]

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Kenny being a lefty in the photo.  

[Gheorghe]

When I was a youngster and living in Europe the records easy to achieve were those "Musidisc" albums, most of them with (at least then) rare live material, and they were "famous" for wrong years and wrong personnel. It was so bad it took me years to learn jazz history properly, because I was wrong informed:
Some examples:

Tadd Dameron/Fats Navarro was titled "Birdland 1949" but really it might have been "Roost 1948", incredible isn´t it ?

And even worse: There was one album of Bud and it was called "Live from Birdland 1956" and the listed personnel was "Paul Chambers and Art Taylor ". Actually it was februrary 1953 with Oscar Pettiford and Roy Haynes. But I was smart enough to not believe that the more old fashioned bass sound couldn´t be Paul Chambers strong and fat sound and steady lines. And after some time I purchased a Victor record of Bud from 56 and it sounds so poor it couldnt be the same Bud.

And there was an Italian Label with the strange titles "....at his rare of all rarest performances", and there was a Miles Davis album from Birdland 51 and if you know Miles composition "Down", well it´s on that album but it was titled "Mike´s Blues" so there was some confusion when someone else titled a tune "Mike´s Blues" and I thought he might have stolen the title from Davis......

 

[Big Beat Steve]

Yes, those Musidiscs often contained wrong date and personnel info. But they DID have their advantages - they WERE available, they were affordable and they made lots of rare stuff available at a time when small labels from abroad/overseas were very thin on the ground over here.

And it has to be said in their defense that they took up lots of live recordings from U.S. labels (e.g. Alamac) that included incorrect dates too. Probably a case of mistakes being copied without proper research

 

 

[EKE BBB]

A few misspellings in the personnel listing in this 1201 Music CD reissue of this Black Lion disc:

[Dan Gould]

I think this is an even bigger font than the infamous Booby.

And if you're wondering, there is a ton of space to the right to get that "E" in there.

[Pim]

Several of my McCoy Tyner OJC reissues got McCoy Turner or McCoy Tuner on the side of them.... very annoying. 

[Ken Dryden]

One of the worst was Will Calhoun's Live at the Blue Note on Half Note Records, which labeled the last track as Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance," though it was actually McCoy Tyner's "Passion Dance." The poor sap who reviewed it for JazzTimes evidently rewrote the press release, if he coudln't immediately identify either of these well known songs, he probably shouldn't be reviewing jazz, especially for a widely distributed magazine. 

I think this was corrected with a later printing.

There's also a SteepleChase CD which misidentifies John Coltrane's "Locoomtion" as being a Thelonious Monk work, an error repeated by liner note writer Mark Gardner, who has been around long enough to know better. I am trying to recall the name of the artist and album...

 

[Shrdlu]

On 11/23/2019 at 1:12 PM, Pim said:

Several of my McCoy Tyner OJC reissues got McCoy Turner or McCoy Tuner on the side of them.... very annoying. 

That error is on Trane's "Africa Brass" album, his first for Impulse. It was not repeated on later albums.

I've read a few posts in this thread. Most errors that I saw are trivialities.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Shrdlu

[Pim]

 
 

check out the horror 😤 I mean: 5 times the same mistake. Almost doubted if his nickname was Turner...

Edited November 27, 2019 by Pim

[Misterioso]

10 hours ago, Shrdlu said:

I've read a few posts in this thread. Most errors that I saw are trivialities.

Some are, but still fun to point them out. Misspelling the artists’ names, however, is disrespectful and not trivial in my books. Theolonious? Seriously?