Sources and corrections
Where things come from, and where the sources disagree.
Main sources
- Discography and credits. The discography chapter of my dissertation, The Exotic Rhythms of Don Ellis (Peabody Institute, 2002), compiled from the liner notes and records. Album notes on this site are adapted from it.
- Rhythm analysis. The dissertation’s analysis chapters, including the transcriptions used on Hear the rhythms.
- Archives. The Don Ellis Memorial Library, which I visited in January 1998.
- Hank Levy. The sources behind my facts about Hank are listed on HankLevyMusic.com/sources.
Where sources disagree
Hank Levy’s birth year: 1927
This site gives September 27, 1927. That is the date in the U.S. Army Field Band’s booklet The Legacy of Hank Levy, and it fits the other sources: the Baltimore Sun obituary (Hank died on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, at 73), the Library of Congress name authority record, Wikipedia, HankLevyJazz.com and Towson University’s archives finding aid. Older versions of this site, including the dedication of my dissertation (“Hank Levy, 1928–2001”), said 1928. That was my error, and I have corrected it everywhere on the site. The printed dedication in the PDF still says 1928 because the PDF is the document as submitted in 2002.
Date of death: September 18, 2001, per the Sun, the Library of Congress and Wikipedia. HankLevyJazz.com and Towson’s finding aid give September 17.
The Hank Levy interview: April 1995
My dissertation’s footnote and bibliography date my interview with Hank to April 1995. The dissertation’s introduction says 1996, which looks like a slip. April 1995 also fits the dissertation’s other phone interview from the same month, and Hank still lived at his home in the Lutherville area in 1997. See the interview post.
My years with Hank: 1987 to 1989
Earlier pages said 1986–1990. I studied composition with Hank from 1987 to 1989.
Repairs to the old pages
In 2026 I found that hidden spam had been injected into several old pages: blocks of unrelated text and links, invisible to visitors, and in a few places replacing parts of my own sentences. I removed all of it and repaired the damaged sentences only from my dissertation or from clean archived copies of the same pages. I replaced a damaged discography section (the empty track list for Live in 3 2/3 /4 Time) with the list from my dissertation. I also removed the paid hard-copy offer from the dissertation page and old affiliate tracking from the Amazon links.
Corrections
Found a mistake? Tell me and I will fix it and add a line here.