International Association of Jazz Record Collectors
The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors is an International non-profit organization devoted to the appreciation, education, and preservation of recorded jazz history. The organization was founded 52 years ago (1964) in Pittsburgh and incorporated in 1975 in Ohio as a non-profit entity,[1][2][3] classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3). The incorporators were James H. Beauchamp, Edward L. Shank, and Leo F. Krebs (born 1937), all of Dayton. The organization has published the IAJRC Journal four times a year for the past 48 years (since 1968), produced over 77 titles of recorded jazz on its own label, IAJRC Records, and holds a convention once a year. Many peers, including TV and radio historian Tim Brooks, regard the IAJRC as a scholarly organization.[4]
Historical perspective
Before the digital age, access to the wider universe of recorded jazz was dominated by music libraries of academic institutions, broadcast entertainment industries, and private collectors. Advocacy and formalizing published literature on recorded jazz has benefited largely from the International Folk Music Council (founded 1947), the International Association of Music Libraries (founded 1949), the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (founded 1964), the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (founded 1966), the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (founded 1968), and the International Association for Jazz Research (founded 1969).[3]
The organization's overarching activities are research, publishing, re-mastering of sound recordings, and distribution of rare or unreleased recordings. Jazz, in its infancy, was not respected in learned society. And for the remaining first half of the twentieth century, it was of little interest to scholars and academic institutions. Chronicling it was mostly done by news-media and trade publications. In the latter part of the twentieth century, academic institutions and scholars have become custodians of jazz education and its history. Yet jazz in higher education is typically focused on professional development. The non-profit structure of IAJRC and its volunteerism enables the organization to sidestep limitations of professional and commercial aspects of jazz research and restoration of archival papers, film, and recorded sound. Irrespective of the increasing institutionalism of jazz, the IAJRC — its publications and record releases — has flourished without being entirely subsumed by the establishment.[5] Many projects of the IAJRC have brought notoriety to living and deceased jazz artists who had been little-known or forgotten or non-commercial.
Executives
- Kenneth D. Crawford, Jr. (1925–2006), from Pittsburgh, was a researcher, host of a vintage jazz radio program, jazz film collector and archivist, and a founding member and one-time president of the IAJRC[6]
- Bill Love, President around 1968
- Richard (Dick) M. Raichelson (born 1941), founding member and president during the 1970s
- Edwin Arthur Steane, PhD (born 1933), from Brentwood, Tennessee, former President
- Bruce Davidson, former President in the mid-1980s
- 20??–2007: Ronald J. Pikielek (born 1932), former president
- 1995–19??: Philip F. Pospychala (born 1936), from Chicago, former President[7]
- 2008–present: Geoffrey A. Wheeler (born 1936), IAJRC member since 1985 and frequent contributor to the Journal, has been IAJRC President since 2008[8][9]
References
- ↑ "A Survey of Record Collectors' Societies," by Tim Brooks, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1983, pps. 17–37; ISSN 0004-5438
- ↑ Goldmine Jazz: Album Price Guide by Tim Neely, Krause Publications (2004), pg. 10; OCLC 56759163
- 1 2 Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, (vol. 1 of 2; A–L), Frank Hoffman (ed.), Routledge (2005), pg. 422; OCLC 53903601
- ↑ "Only in America: The Unique Status of Sound Recordings under U.S. Copyright Law and How It Threatens Our Audio Heritage," by Tim Brooks, American Music, University of Illinois Press, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2009, pg. 134; ISSN 1945-2349
- ↑ Jazz Archives in the United States (masters thesis), Michael Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008), pg. 25
- ↑ "Ken Crawford, IAJRC Founder and Broadcaster (1925–2006)", IAJRC Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3, August 2006, pg. 1
- ↑ "Spirit of 78: One Man's Obsession With Shellac," by James R. Jones, Chicago Reader, July 17, 1997
- ↑ "Strictly On The Record – Lifelong Love of Jazz Spins Into Massive Music Collection,", by Emma E. Downs (born 1975), The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne), October 11, 2008
- ↑ "Big Band News," by Christopher J. Popa (music librarian) (born 1957), www
.bigbandlibrary , April 2009.com
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