Hot Jazz for Sale Hollywood Jazz Man Record Shop Cary 9780557351466 Books
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For over 40 years, the Jazz Man Record Shop was Hollywood's haven and hangout for collectors of jazz records. Through its portals passed music's greatest stars, from Louis Armstrong to the Rolling Stones, as well as some of Hollywood's most famous personalities, including Orson Welles and Mel Torme. In the 1940s, the Jazz Man record label launched a worldwide revival of traditional jazz with its groundbreaking recordings by Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band. This book traces the fascinating history of this monument to American entrepreneurship, utilizing interviews, primary resources, and over 150 photographs and illustrations.
Hot Jazz for Sale Hollywood Jazz Man Record Shop Cary 9780557351466 Books
I never thought anyone would write a book about the Jazz Man Record Shop. Not that it didn't deserve a literary legacy---as this book makes abundantly clear---the Shop had a culturally important legacy and played a role in several revivals of New Orleans Hot Jazz.I just assumed it would never happen, because there was always a Rodney Dangerfield quality to The Jazz Man Record Shop. It was clear as well that Father Time was not on the side of music recorded on 78 RPM records. When Don closed the Santa Monica shop and then passed on, I assumed I would be left with just the records, the memories, and one newspaper picture of Don Brown. I am deeply grateful to Cary Ginell for researching and writing this book.
It was fun while it lasted. Whenever I think of the Jazz Man Record Shop, I remember a little photograph on the wall just above the Rek-O-Kut 78 turntable that always made me laugh. It was a photo of a group of 1930's hoboes sitting around a campfire with their bindles and sticks. They were cooking hot dogs over an open fire with forked sticks. The handwritten caption Don added to the photo read: "The Jazz Man Record Shop Annual Picnic." Don Brown had a great sense of humor.
I was introduced to Old Jazz music by my cousin, Walter Gabrielson. I played tapes he made of the Cobweb Corner Radio Shows on KRHM, which is where I first discovered Don Brown. I began listening to the Cobweb Corner live myself. Then, I began making a monthly trip out to the Jazz Man Record Shop from late 1969 to the end in 1983. I bought mostly LP's, often of music I heard on his radio program. I only bought 78's if the music wasn't available on LP. After Don closed the shop, I ordered LP's from him and would pick them up at his home. I did get to meet his wife, Dar, and see his home, in which I saw a very different, more serious side of him.
I was never part of the Saturday afternoon crowd, although I enjoyed their antics. I could only make it out to the shop once a month, and came to prefer weekdays. Don had more time to talk with me on weekdays and I was full of questions.
I was primarily interested in piano players and I discovered that Don played piano, although like me, only for himself. I had already discovered Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller, but he expanded my knowledge to Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Paul Lingle, James P. Johnson, Don Ewell, Willie the Lion Smith and so many others. Don really knew the music.
I can vouch for what Cary Ginell says about Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones as a customer of the shop. When I came in one afternoon, Don had just opened a letter and showed it to me. Charlie Watts had listed three Albert Ammons 78's that he wanted to buy. Don said it would be a matter of pure luck finding them. Another customer whose letter Don showed me was Chuck Cecil of the famous L.A. area "Swingin' Years" program fame who played the music so hated by the founder of The Shop, Dave Stuart.
Cary Ginell has done an amazing job of researching the history of the shop. Until I read this book, I knew almost nothing about the Jazz Man Record Shop as it was prior to Don Brown. Don Brown only mentioned Dave Stuart, the founder, a few times. Brown never mentioned any of the other owners that I can recall. In Ginell's account, Stuart was always chasing jazz rainbows like the lyric of the old pop song. He tried to leverage the shop to super stardom but it all came to naught. Then there was Marili Morden. Marili was the sultry ingénue of the Jazz Man Record Shop. She basically ran the shop for ten years through marriages and divorces to both Stuart and Nesuhi Ertegan (later co-founder of Atlantic Records.) She moved the shop various times around Hollywood. She wearied of it and sold it to Albert Van Court, who also soon discovered there was no pot of gold in the Jazz Man Record Shop. Van Court wearied of it and sold it for a token amount to Don Brown who revived it, moved it to Santa Monica, and kept it alive for 20 years. That it survived at all was a bet against the odds.
The last record I bought from the Jazz Man Record Shop was a 78. It was a Jazz Man Record Shop original recording of Jelly Roll Morton's The Fingerbreaker. This recording is included on the supplemental CD disk that came with the book. It was among those produced by Dave Stuart. The Fingerbreaker, along with the more famous Morton piece---the Crave---now has a following on You Tube among young people mostly from Europe. One young woman has invented a dance to go with it. Interest in Morton was revived by the 1998 Italian Movie, The Legend of 1900. The Jazz Man Record Shop may be long gone but this Hot Jazz music has had more revivals than a cat has lives.
Cary Ginell's Hot Jazz For Sale keeps track of all the twists and turns of the Jazz Man Record Shop with great pictures, artwork, record labels, and a supplemental disc added. This review is too long. But, thanks, Cary. Great job.
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Hot Jazz for Sale Hollywood Jazz Man Record Shop Cary 9780557351466 Books Reviews
If you love music, old records, Hollywood, Los Angeles, history, Los Angeles history, Hollywood history, you need this book. It is an in-depth look into a different era, wonderfully researched and illustrated with fabulous photos. Cary Ginell puts you there - in that time and place - and you will want to linger for a while.
So I was told of the Jazz Man Record Shop by Cary himself and decided to grab a copy of his book. I was not around to see this shop in action but the writing in this book painted a clear picture of the events that occurred inside and around the shop. Day by day I would sit and read bits and pieces of this book and would end up wanting to read more about this amazing record store. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a lover of all types of music. Thanks again Cary.
PS the CD that comes in the back of the book is a great bonus.
If you are one of that dying breed, the shellac hunter, then you should seize this treasure while you can. It's the story of the Jazz Man Record Shop, which began life in 1939 on Sunset Boulevard, and finally closed down in 1984, after various relocations. In the process, it underwent six changes of ownership, saw the establishment of a new record label, and built up a clientele that became a club where knowledge could be aired and shared.
All of this is told in a highly readable style, and covers the involvement of such luminaries as Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson, and Lu Watters. The first owner was led to believe that he would have a major input into Orson Welles' next project, but nothing came of it, and other schemes foundered, until he established the Jazz Man label. At the time few other independent jazz labels existed, other than Commodore and UHCA, which concentrated on reissues, and the author rightly lauds the new label for being influential in the revival of traditional jazz.
The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, billboards, and the "Cat" cartoons produced by Gene Deitch. It concludes with a complete discography of the Jazz Man recordings, and an index. I said at the beginning that this book would appeal to 78 collectors, but it should be of far wider interest, because it looks critically at the record industry itself, and at the decline of the record store.
The CD tracklist is as follows
1. Muskrat Ramble - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
2. Memphis Blues - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
3. Black & White Rag _ Wally Rose
4. Sunset Café Stomp - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
5. Moose March - Bunk Johnson's Original Superior Band
6. Interview (part 1) - Willie Bunk Johnson
7. Fingerbuster - Jelly Roll Morton
8. Blues for Jimmy - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
9. Get Out of Here - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
10. Joe's Blues - Johnny Wittwer Trio
11. Do What Ory Say - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
12. Ragtime Nightingale - Johnny Wittwer
13. Clarinet Marmalade - Pete Daily's Rhythm Kings
14. Brother Lowdown - Turk Murphy's Bay City Stompers
15. Dippermouth Blues - Darnell Howard's Frisco Footwarmers
16. Lovin' to be Done - Pud Brown's Delta Kings
17. Don't Send Me Posies - Rosy McHargue's Ragtimers
18. Ice Cream - George Lewis' Ragtime Band
19. Burgundy Street - George Lewis' Ragtime Band
20. Ting a Ling - Pete Daily & his Chicagoans
22. Loveless Love - Johnny Lucas & his Blueblowers
23. Searchlight Rag - Marvin Ash
24. You Know You Belong to Somebody Else - Joe Venuti & Tony Romano
25. Fixin' to Die- Bukka White (previously unissued)
I heard from the book ("Hot Jazz For Sale"), ordered it at , and within a few days the book arrived, in splendid condition.
So I am very satisfied with my purchase.
So glad the Jazz Man was captured in this book. It enabled me to experience this place as well!
I never thought anyone would write a book about the Jazz Man Record Shop. Not that it didn't deserve a literary legacy---as this book makes abundantly clear---the Shop had a culturally important legacy and played a role in several revivals of New Orleans Hot Jazz.
I just assumed it would never happen, because there was always a Rodney Dangerfield quality to The Jazz Man Record Shop. It was clear as well that Father Time was not on the side of music recorded on 78 RPM records. When Don closed the Santa Monica shop and then passed on, I assumed I would be left with just the records, the memories, and one newspaper picture of Don Brown. I am deeply grateful to Cary Ginell for researching and writing this book.
It was fun while it lasted. Whenever I think of the Jazz Man Record Shop, I remember a little photograph on the wall just above the Rek-O-Kut 78 turntable that always made me laugh. It was a photo of a group of 1930's hoboes sitting around a campfire with their bindles and sticks. They were cooking hot dogs over an open fire with forked sticks. The handwritten caption Don added to the photo read "The Jazz Man Record Shop Annual Picnic." Don Brown had a great sense of humor.
I was introduced to Old Jazz music by my cousin, Walter Gabrielson. I played tapes he made of the Cobweb Corner Radio Shows on KRHM, which is where I first discovered Don Brown. I began listening to the Cobweb Corner live myself. Then, I began making a monthly trip out to the Jazz Man Record Shop from late 1969 to the end in 1983. I bought mostly LP's, often of music I heard on his radio program. I only bought 78's if the music wasn't available on LP. After Don closed the shop, I ordered LP's from him and would pick them up at his home. I did get to meet his wife, Dar, and see his home, in which I saw a very different, more serious side of him.
I was never part of the Saturday afternoon crowd, although I enjoyed their antics. I could only make it out to the shop once a month, and came to prefer weekdays. Don had more time to talk with me on weekdays and I was full of questions.
I was primarily interested in piano players and I discovered that Don played piano, although like me, only for himself. I had already discovered Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller, but he expanded my knowledge to Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Paul Lingle, James P. Johnson, Don Ewell, Willie the Lion Smith and so many others. Don really knew the music.
I can vouch for what Cary Ginell says about Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones as a customer of the shop. When I came in one afternoon, Don had just opened a letter and showed it to me. Charlie Watts had listed three Albert Ammons 78's that he wanted to buy. Don said it would be a matter of pure luck finding them. Another customer whose letter Don showed me was Chuck Cecil of the famous L.A. area "Swingin' Years" program fame who played the music so hated by the founder of The Shop, Dave Stuart.
Cary Ginell has done an amazing job of researching the history of the shop. Until I read this book, I knew almost nothing about the Jazz Man Record Shop as it was prior to Don Brown. Don Brown only mentioned Dave Stuart, the founder, a few times. Brown never mentioned any of the other owners that I can recall. In Ginell's account, Stuart was always chasing jazz rainbows like the lyric of the old pop song. He tried to leverage the shop to super stardom but it all came to naught. Then there was Marili Morden. Marili was the sultry ingénue of the Jazz Man Record Shop. She basically ran the shop for ten years through marriages and divorces to both Stuart and Nesuhi Ertegan (later co-founder of Atlantic Records.) She moved the shop various times around Hollywood. She wearied of it and sold it to Albert Van Court, who also soon discovered there was no pot of gold in the Jazz Man Record Shop. Van Court wearied of it and sold it for a token amount to Don Brown who revived it, moved it to Santa Monica, and kept it alive for 20 years. That it survived at all was a bet against the odds.
The last record I bought from the Jazz Man Record Shop was a 78. It was a Jazz Man Record Shop original recording of Jelly Roll Morton's The Fingerbreaker. This recording is included on the supplemental CD disk that came with the book. It was among those produced by Dave Stuart. The Fingerbreaker, along with the more famous Morton piece---the Crave---now has a following on You Tube among young people mostly from Europe. One young woman has invented a dance to go with it. Interest in Morton was revived by the 1998 Italian Movie, The Legend of 1900. The Jazz Man Record Shop may be long gone but this Hot Jazz music has had more revivals than a cat has lives.
Cary Ginell's Hot Jazz For Sale keeps track of all the twists and turns of the Jazz Man Record Shop with great pictures, artwork, record labels, and a supplemental disc added. This review is too long. But, thanks, Cary. Great job.
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