TT: Mistakes were made

I just seem to get busier and busier. I spent the weekend in Florida speaking at Rollins College, my new home-away-from-home, and tomorrow Mrs. T and I head for Boston to see the Huntington Theatre Company’s revival of Bus Stop. After that I’ll be flying out to Missouri to visit my family, followed by a quick trip to Chicago to take in a couple of shows.
Once you have a sufficient number of balls in the air, I suspect that there’s no way to avoid dropping them from time to time, which explains (I hope!) how I let a certain number of tiny errors creep into the text of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Fortunately, I was able to fix all of them in the newly published paperback edition. A reader asked me last week if I could send her an errata list, so I’ve decided to post it here for the benefit of scholars, jazz buffs, and anyone who likes to see a critic admit to being wrong. Enjoy yourselves!
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PAGE 13, LINE 32: insert “grand-opera” before “tenor,” making the phrase read “…a lordly grand-opera tenor.”
PAGE 37, PHOTO CAPTION: change “The inscription is in…” to “The inscription at the top is in…”
PAGE 48, LINE 1: change “never” to “rarely.”
PAGE 124, LINE 13: change “…mob-run nightclub located in the same…” to “…mob-run nightclub which in 1937 would move to the same…”
PAGE 152, LINE 35: change “…inauspicious film debut…” to “…inauspicious debut…”
PAGE 158, LINES 2-3: change “…that the drummer’s boss, who led the band…” to “…that Abe Lyman, who had led the band…”
PAGE 158, LINE 21: change “He continued to play there…” to “He played there…”
PAGE 158, LINE 22: change “…when he went on trial before Judge…” to “when he pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge…”
PAGE 158, LINE 28: cut “jail.”
PAGE 158, LINE 29: change “remainder” to “rest.”
PAGE 168, PHOTO CAPTION: cut “1931.”
PAGE 172, LINE 28: change “…Buddy Bolden died in New Orleans and three months after…” to “…Buddy Bolden died and three months after…” (i.e., cut “in New Orleans”).
PAGE 323, LINE 33: change “…Sidney Bechet, who received the same honor, wrote…” to “…Sidney Bechet, who would have liked nothing better than to receive the same honor, wrote…” (i.e., change “received” to “would have liked nothing better than to receive”).
PAGE 174, LINE 15: cut the comma inside the close-quote mark after “National Emblem March.”
PAGE 203, LINE 20: cut the comma after “America Dances!”
PAGE 214, LINE 30: cut “fifty cents, then,” making the phrase read “…sold for thirty-five.”
PAGE 216, LINE 5: change “sedate-sounding” to “placid-sounding.”
PAGE 313, LINE 18: change “Charles Walter” to “Charles Walters.”
PAGE 340, LINE 10: change “…is too earnest…” to “…is sometimes too earnest…”
PAGE 340, LINE 29: set “Sullivan” in roman, not italics.
PAGE 372, LINE 31: change “Phoebe Jacobs” to “the trumpeter.”
PAGE 382, LINE 9: cut “and.” LINE 11: after “grew,” change the period to a semicolon, then insert the following: “…and Walter Darby Bannard, who first suggested the title.”
PAGE 406, ADD TO SOURCE LIST OF BOOKS IN CHAPTER 4: “Jonson, Bix.”
PAGE 407, SUB ENTIRE LAST NOTE AS FOLLOWS: “He was a cute little boy”: Sudhalter, 39. See also Satchmo, 209, SP, 26, and Dodds, 24). Beiderbecke told members of his family that he heard Fate Marable’s band in Louisiana, Mo., in the summer of 1921, but he did not mention LA, and the two men may well have met earlier (Jonson, 693).
PAGE 413, LINE 37: change “Club Apex” to “Apex Nite Club” (“Nite,” not “Night,” is correct).
PAGE 414, LINE 20, SUB ENTIRE NOTE AS FOLLOWS: “Abe Lyman, Vic’s leader”: Berton, 389. Lyman actually led the Cocoanut Grove band from 1921 to 1925. In 1930 its leader was Gus Arnheim, who had been Lyman’s pianist. Berton was sentenced to ninety nights in the county jail, from which he was released each morning so that he could fulfill his professional commitments. Court records show that Berton and LA were not tried together and that LA’s case was not handled similarly.
PAGE 436, LINE 32: change “Atlanta University” to “Alabama University.”
PAGE 474, LEG 2: change index entry for “Charles Walter” to “Charles Walters.”
PAGE 445, ADD THIS ENTRY TO BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jonson, Rich J., with Jim Arpy and Gerri Bowers. Bix: The Davenport Album. Barnegat, NJ: Razor Edge Press, 2009.