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A bygone British jazz magazine
Storyville
Cover of December 1969 issue
EditorLaurie Wright (1929–2010)
CategoriesMusic magazine
FrequencySemimonthly 1965–1986
Monthly 1987–1995
Biennially 1997–2003
FormatPrint
PublisherLaurie Wright
FounderLaurie Wright
First issueOctober 1, 1965 (1965-10-01)
Final issue
Number		June 1, 1995 (1995-06-01)
(29 years, 8 months)
   — 162 issues
CompanyStoryville Publications and Co. Ltd.
CountryUK
Based in1965–1973: Walthamstow, London
1973–1995: Chigwell
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteNational Jazz Archives
ISSN0039-2030
OCLC3335747

Storyville was a British jazz magazine that ran from 1965 to 2003 featuring jazz history, discography, and record trading. 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.

History

Storyville was founded by Laurie Wright (né Lawrence D. Wright; 1929–2010). The publication has been acclaimed for containing a wealth of early historical material on jazz. 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.

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.

Archival access

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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Covers

See also

References

  1. Jazz A-Z, by Peter Clayton (1927–1991) and Peter Gammond, Guinness Books (Guinness Superlatives Ltd.) (1986), pg. 227; OCLC 15353474, 76750957
  2. ^ "Laurie Wright: Storyville Publisher" (obituary), IAJRC Journal, 1 June 2010; ISSN 0098-9487
  3. "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)
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