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.
 Cover of December 1969 issue | |
| Editor | Laurie Wright (1929–2010) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
History
editStoryville 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]
Archival access
editDigital
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.
Library codes
Covers
editSee also
edit- Storyville Index: No. 1 to No. 162 (October 1965 through June 1995), compiled by Howard Rye (né Howard Willett Rye; born 1947) and P. J. S. Mitchell, revised and enlarged by Bernhard H. Behncke with additional references to artists, instruments, and locations, Hamburg, Germany (Summer 2002); OCLC 896680450
References
edit- ^ Jazz A-Z, by Peter Clayton (1927–1991) and Peter Gammond, Guinness Books (Guinness Superlatives Ltd.) (1986), pg. 227; OCLC 15353474, 76750957
- ^ a b c "Laurie Wright: Storyville Publisher" (obituary), IAJRC Journal, 1 June 2010; ISSN 0098-9487
- ^ "A Survey," by Derek Wilton Langridge (1925–2000), Fontes Artis Musicae, published by the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, Vol. 31, No. 1, January–March 1984, pp. 19–23 (Retrieved 19 March 2015)