Hot Record Society
The Hot Record Society was founded in 1937 to make recordings of hot jazz accessible again. It was founded by Steve Smith. The advisory board included John Hammond , Marshall Stearns , Charles Edward Smith , Wilder Hobson, Bill Russell , Charles Delaunay , Hugues Panassié and Sinclair Traill. She initially concentrated on sales of still available jazz and blues recordings and mail order auctions; she also collected biographical material on musicians and discographic information. From 1938 new recordings were added on the company's own label HRS Records and re-releases from the catalogs of ARC and Decca Records . A separate, irregularly appearing magazine Hot Record Society Rag , which Steve and Charles Edward Smith published, informed the record collectors about the activities of the Society, which was sharply separated from both the United Hot Clubs of America and those of Commodore Records . Authors of the magazine, which appeared until 1940, were critics such as Hammond or Russell. The ideal of the Hot Record Society was New Orleans jazz that was not based on commerce.
Ultimately, the work of the Hot Record Society with that of the United Hot Clubs of America fueled the renaissance of New Orleans jazz .
literature
- Dan Morgenstern , The Hot Record Society . In: D. Morgenstern / Sh. Meyer Living with Jazz Pantheon Books 2004, pp. 479-585
- Jürgen Wölfer , Lexikon des Jazz Wien 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd edition)
Individual evidence
- ^ The later founder of the British magazine Jazz Journal
- ↑ Jack Sohmer The Complete HRS Sessions , JazzTimes
- ↑ a b John Genari Blowin 'Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. Chicago 2010, pp. 93f.
- ↑ David Suisman, Susan Strasser sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. University of Pennsylvania Press 2011, p. 102