Editor | Laurie Wright (1929–2010) |
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Categories | Music magazine |
Frequency |
Semimonthly 1965–1986 Monthly 1987–1995 Biennially 1997–2003 |
Format | |
Publisher | Laurie Wright |
Founder | Laurie Wright |
First issue | October 1, 1965 |
Final issue Number | June 1, 1995 (29 years, 8 months) — 162 issues |
Company | Storyville Publications and Co. Ltd. |
Country | UK |
Based in | 1965–1973:
Walthamstow,
London 1973–1995: Chigwell |
Language | English |
Website | National Jazz Archives |
ISSN | 0039-2030 |
OCLC | 3335747 |
Storyville was a British jazz magazine that ran from 1965 to 2003 featuring jazz history, discography, and record trading. [1] It was published six times a year from October 1965 to December 1986 (issues 1 to 128), then quarterly from March 1987 to June 1995 (issues 129 to 162), then four biennial volumes were published until 2003.
Storyville was founded by Laurie Wright (né Lawrence D. Wright; 1929–2010). [2] The publication has been acclaimed for containing a wealth of early historical material on jazz. [3] And although Storyville was not officially a peer-reviewed journal — in part because, other than music librarians, few jazz scholars existed in academic research in 1965 — it was, nonetheless, peer-reviewed in reality by well-informed jazz enthusiasts, discographers, musicologists, and the like. [2]
Separately from the magazine, Storyville Publications published books about jazz, notably discographies. Included were Wright's own works, the standard discographies, two volumes of Eric Townley's Tell Your Story; A Dictionary of Jazz and Blues Recordings 1917–1950, Tom Lord's bio-discography, Clarence Williams (1976), and several biographical and autobiographical memoirs of historic musicians. The last of these, published under Wright's name, was an autobiography, Trombone Man: Preston Jackson's Story (2005), after which ill-health forced Wright's retirement. [2]
Digital
All issues are digitally reproduced and available on the website of the National Jazz Archive, a charitable organization based in Loughton, England, by permission of Lauri Wright's Estate.
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