Nick Perls

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J. Nicholas Perls ( April 4, 1942 , † July 22, 1987 ) was an American music producer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records .

Life

Nicholas Perls was a son of the art dealer Klaus Gunther Perls, who had fled Germany, and the American educator Amelia Blumenthal. Nick Perls' Yazoo Records was (along with 2 - 3 others) the record label that, by re-releasing 78 rpm records from the 1920s and 1930s in the 1960s and 1970s, made a decisive contribution to increasing the interest of white buyers in blues ( and jazz ), and with the resulting consequences of the 'reenactment' of this music by many of the rock groups founded at the time ( Rolling Stones and others), it has also shaped the history of modern rock music. The LPs put together by Nick Perls at the time are z. Till today offered as CD re-releases (by Shanachie Records, who bought the label shortly before Perls' death), the not yet re-released records are all very popular collector's items, which are auctioned on eBay at high prices.

In the 1960s he was a member of the so-called New York "Blues Mafia", a loose association of blues enthusiasts who, in addition to him, Steve Calt (writer of various record texts and books), Samuel Charters (RBF Records), Lawrence 'Larry' Cohn ( CBS / Epic, Columbia / Sony Records), John Fahey (aka 'Blind Joe Death', Takoma Records ), Stefan Grossman (aka 'Kid Future', Kicking Mule Records ), Tom Hoskins (aka 'Fang', the Mississippi John Hurt 'rediscovered'), Bernie Klatzko ( Herwin Records ), Jim McKune, Don Kent ( Mamlish Records ), Phil Spiro and Pete Whelan (Origin Jazz Library).

Together with Dick Waterman and Phil Spiro, he found the legendary blues musician Son House in Rochester, New York, in June 1964, thanks to his recordings from 1930 (for Paramount ) and 1942 (for the Library of Congress ) , making him a second 'Career' in the course of the folk and blues ' revival ' that began in the mid-1960s .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perls, Amelia (nee Blumenthal) , NYT, September 8, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Perls, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perls, J. Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American record producer, founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1942
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1987