METRONOME Magazine January 1961 V.78 #1 Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Nat Hentoff

Description: TITLE: Metronome DATE: January 1961 VOLUME 78 / NUMBER 1 CONDITION: Very Good Plus Solid with minor wear, handling, age and use. Contents tight to the staples, white pages, very slight rippling to page right edges in one area [no obvious cause], and no other interior detractions. 60 pages with covers. HIGHLIGHTS: Inside front cover ad for the newly-introduced Fender Jazz Bass. Photo portrait of Billie Holiday [with her tiny dog] by Buck Hoeffler. Buddy Rich gives his long, knowledgeable opinion on three new records - by Count Basie, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Persip. Article on Duke Ellington's new trombone player, Mitchell Wood. Deep study of Charlie Mingus by Ted White. Fictional satire by Herbert Gold with the subject being accidental nuclear attack [written after Red Alert, but before Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove. ------------------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:Metronome was a music magazine published from January 1885 to December 1961.History -Metronome began to shift away from classical music in the 1920s, when it featured a "Saxophone Department," an instrument family that, by then, had become a symbol of American popular music. In 1932 the magazine's tagline read "For Orchestra, Band, Radio and Motion Picture Theatre Musicians."Beginning with the swing era, Metronome focused primarily on the genre of Jazz music appealing to fans. Writers for the magazine were its co-editors, Leonard Feather and Barry Ulanov; Miles Davis cited them as the only two white music critics in New York to understand bebop.George T. Simon, editor-in-chief from 1939 through 1955, sometimes wrote articles under the pseudonym Jimmy Bracken. He was a drummer, although he changed the magazine's focus from articles on instrument-making and publishing, to items about recordings and the noted big-band leaders of the day.Bill Coss, editor-in-chief from 1956 through 1960 was also editor-in-chief of Jazz Today, a Metronome publication with additional Jazz focus. The demise of Metronome (1959–1961):Metronome, under financial duress, was set to close after the December 1959 issue, but, in the words of author John Gennari, they "won a reprieve when photography editor Herb Snitzer prevailed upon his wife's uncle, Robert Asen, buy the [dying] publication." Resuming operation under the leadership of Snitzer, editor Dave Solomon, and art director Jerry Smokler, Metronome became, briefly, a hip, avant-garde publication that surrounded its jazz coverage with cutting-edge Beat literature, ..."politically-charged cartoons, and other innovative visual material." Asen was Metronome's publisher and Milton Lichtenstein was president of the underlying publishing firm, Metronome Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of RMC Associates in New York. The "Saving of Metronome" was not RMC's primary mission. The main job of RMC's personnel was to serve as manufacturers' representatives and field engineers in what was regarded as the most concentrated territory in the world for electronic instrumentation and engineering component markets. RMC's clients included Hewlett-Packard, Western Electric, Bell Telephone Labs, Sperry Gyroscope, and Grumman Aircraft Engineering – and also unique clients such as the United Nations, Les Paul, and Mary Ford. Asen, in December 1960, had hired David Solomon as Metronome's new managing editor [he had been an editor at Esquire and Playboy magazines in the 1950s]. "Trouble came in July 1961 when a cover photograph of a Coney Island female stripper [and an accompanying article by Snitzer with more provocative photos] raised the ire of high school librarians, five or six-hundred of whom cancelled their subscriptions. Solomon was fired, Dan Morgenstern took over, and, after the two Beat pieces in August and the Leroi Jones essay in September (see our additional listings for those two issues), the magazine reverted to straight jazz coverage."But even that was too late to help out the doomed periodical.The final issue of Metronome was printed in December 1961 (Volume 78, No. 12). ---------------------------------------------------- Please view carefully all photographic scans included, which are of the actual item in the listing -These are an important part of the description. Please ask any questions prior to purchase. No foreign sales. Thank You.

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