The Record Changer
The Record Changer was an American jazz magazine in New York City , which existed as a magazine for jazz record collectors from 1942 to 1956.
The magazine was one of many magazines founded by jazz enthusiasts and record collectors in the late 1930s and early 1940s, all of which were short-lived except for The Record Changer. From 1948 the owner was the record collector Bill Grauer , who brought his friend Orrin Keepnews as editor (which he did as a part-time job at night).
Many of the illustrations were by Gene Deitch , who also became the magazine's artistic director. He created the cartoon figure of the bald, brilliant old-time jazz lover The Cat , who was often on the cover from 1945 to 1951.
Until around 1948, the magazine mainly propagated traditional jazz , only when it was taken over by Grauer and Keepnews also bebop and modern jazz .
In the magazine there were essays and interviews alongside discographic information.
Web links
- Cover September 1947 on the subject of racial segregation, in Postwar American Visual Culture
- Cartoons by Gene Deitch
Individual evidence
- ^ For example, Paul Lopes The rise of a jazz art world , Cambridge University Press 2004, p. 162
- ↑ Orrin Keepnews: Orrinology, Jazz Times 2005 . The old magazine describes Keepnews there as esoteric .