Jazz Institute of Chicago  Why can't they get it right?  Why
can't they get it right? By Don Rose  The music world was
saddened by the recent death of composer-arranger Ralph Burns,
whose remarkable career led him from Woody Herman's two great
Herds of the mid-'40s and early '50s, all the way to major
successes in Hollywood and on Broadway, where he won a Tony
Award for "Fosse."  But before he left us, he at least had the
pleasure of seeing his great jazz suite, "Summer Sequence,"
reissued. The work had long been out of print and was also the
subject of an on-going discographical error. He clarified the
matter in the liner notes to the reissue, but the confusion
still found its way into otherwise fine obituaries in major
publications.  The error, one must note, was first made by
Columbia Records, which recorded the original suite and reissued
it in late 2001 as part of a wonderful and overdue Herman
compilation. Ironically, the notes to the double-CD compilation,
called "Blowin' Up a Storm!: The Columbia Year