BLOWING BAD JAZZ
How could your copy desk overlook such claptrap as this assessment of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers by A. James Liska (I never did trust a man whose first name was A.) in his Feb. 22 review?
”. . . a sextet whose cast of players has included more jazz greats than any other single unit in the history of time.”
Has A. never heard of Count Basie? Lionel Hampton? Woody Herman? Duke Ellington? Benny Goodman?
That’s just five.
JACK TRACY
Sherman Oaks
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