Jazz Man record labels
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Lu Watter’s Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, recorded Dec. 1941. [More info on Discogs]
Lilith is an extrabold italic with partly open letterforms and horizontal hatching, further embellished with baroque mid-stem ornamentation in the capitals. Some details like the Fraktur-like construction of W reveal its German origin: Lilith was first cast by the Bauer foundry in 1930, after designs by Lucian Bernhard (1883–1972) who had left the country for New York seven years earlier.
Bauer had opened an office in New York in 1927. This way, Lilith was available in the United States as well. In the early 1940s, it was chosen for the logo of Jazz Man Records. Founded in 1941, the record label was an offshoot of David Stuart’s Jazz Man Record Shop on Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard (and in 1959 on L.A.’s West Pico Boulevard). In 1946, Stuart sold it to his ex-wife, Marili Morden and her new husband, Nesuhi Ertegun. According to Wikipedia, the label and its namesake shop “were in the vanguard of an international revival of traditional jazz in the 1940s.“
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Glyph set for Lilith from Penrose Annual 41, 1939, in an article on the “Victorian Revival” in typefaces by Robert Harling
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Lu Watter’s Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Muskrat Ramble by Ed Ory, recorded Dec. 1942. [More info on Discogs]
The secondary typefaces are Koch-Antiqua and Bulmer.
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Johnny Wittwer – Ragtime Nightingale by Joseph Lamb, recorded Dec. 1945. [More info on Discogs]
In January 1947, the labels were redesigned in a green color, matching that of Crescent Records.
Secondary typefaces are Futura and a slab serif that resembles Stymie Bold, but has a non-descending J.
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