JAN EVENSMO – JAZZ CV – The PERSONAL HISTORY of JAZZ SOLOGRAPHY and JAZZ ARCHEOLOGY Publications: History of Jazz Tenor Saxophone – Black Artists – Vol. 6:           1955 – 1959    (2008)  (550 p.) – Vol. 5:           1950 – 1954     (2002)  (473 p.) – Vol. 4:           1945 – 1949     (1999)  (489 p.) – Vol. 3:           1940 – 1944     (1997)  (259 p.) – Vol. 2:           1935 – 1939     (1997)  (169 p.) – Vol. 1:           1917 – 1934     (1996)  (139 p.) Published by Norsk Jazzarkiv (Norwegian Jazz Archives), partly supported by Norsk Faglitterær Forfatterforening (Norwegian Non-fiction Writers and Translators Association) Jazz Tenor Saxophone in Norway 1917 – 1959, with Johs Bergh (Norsk Jazzarkiv, 1996) ”History of Jazz Tenor Saxophone – Black artists – 1917 – 1959: Methods and Conclusions” (Conference on Nordic Jazz Research, Stockholm, 1991) ”Fra jazzdiskografi til jazzdokumentasjon – en utvikling mot … Read entire article »

History of Jazz Archeology: Jazz music is an important part of our culture. Since its birth in the U.S.A. in the beginning of the 20th century, it has conquered the world. It has grown, it has changed, and it has survived. Through the years more than one million young artists have called themselves “jazz musicians” or something to that sort. This estimate is impossible to prove, but it is a fact that until the early 1980s, 65 000 musicians had visited a studio to make a jazz record (ref. Walter Bruyninckx. “60 years of recorded jazz”). Imagine what the number must be today. The number of different records, from the early 78 rpm.s of various sizes, through the EP and LP stage, to the current CD products, must be equally … Read entire article »