[Jazz]
Collection of Jazz Record Catalogs and Brochures, 1940's-1960's
An interesting collection of 65 original jazz record catalogs, flyers, and brochures, dating from the 1940's to 60's, many with the stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Store in Oakland, California. The collection includes catalogs from many of the significant jazz labels of the era such as Blue Note, Columbia, and RCA Victor, as well as a several brochures and flyers relating to the West Coast Revival of New Orleans jazz, including the first catalog of Jazz Man Records and a flyer for three recordings of Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band on the Good Time Jazz Records label. Also included are 6 copies of the magazine supplement Jazz Records and 1 copy of Jazz Music, the International Jazz Magazine, published in London. Not only a fascinating glimpse at records of the era, the collection also features many boldly designed and graphically interesting brochures.The brochures are overall in fine condition; the flyers are in various conditions from good to fine, some with creases and toning, a few with slight tears. Sizes range from 3 x 5 to 8.5 x 11 inches.
Contents (undated unless otherwise noted):
Audio Fidelity, Audio Masterworks, Audio Rarities (1 brochure)
Blue Note (5 flyers, one dated 1939)
Castle Records (1 postcard, 1949)
Cavalier Records, San Francisco (1 flyer for 'Red' Murrell)
Century Records (2 copies of 1 flyer, advertising records transcribed from piano rolls)
Circle Records (2 copies of 1948 catalog)
Columbia Masterworks (1 brochure, May 1946)
Columbia & OKeh (1 brochure, September 1941)
Columbia Royal Blue (1 brochure)
Commodore Records (2 flyers, 6 brochures, ca. 1940's-50's)
Decca Jazz (2 brochures, supplements no. 8 and 10, 1956)
Downbeat (1 flyer, May 30, 1957)
Emory Cook Records (1 brochure, 1955-1956)
Good Time Jazz Records (1 flyer for Lu Watters and Yerba Buena Jazz Band, 1954)
Groove Records (1 brochure)
Hot Jazz Club of America (2 typewritten flyers)
HRS (Hot Record Society) Records (1 flyer, 1 brochure)
Jazz Man Records, San Francisco (1 brochure, catalog no. 1, spring 1954)
Jazz Man, Southland, Empirical, Vantage, Vaya and Coronet (1 brochure)
Jazz Music, the International Jazz Magazine, published by the Jazz Record Retailer's Association in London (1 copy, vol. 6 no.3, 1955)
Jazz on Parlophone (1 brochure, printed in England)
Jazz Records (published as part of Jazz Monthly), "a monthly discographical listing of current jazz releases," (6 brochures, March-July and December 1963)
Jazz Record Lounge, Oakland, CA (1 flyer)
Jubilee Records (2 copies of 1 brochure)
Kapp Records (1 brochure)
King Jazz (5 copies of same flyer)
London Records (3 brochures, June 1956-January 1957)
MGM Records (1 brochure, June 1956)
New American Music Records (1 flyer)
Rampart Records (1 brochure, 1949)
RCA Victor Jazz (1 brochure)
RKO Unique Records (1 brochure, 1957)
Stinson Asch Records (1 brochure)
Storyville (1 flyer, July-August [1956?])
Vogue (and Good Time Jazz) Records (3 brochures, 1953-1958) (13269)
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