Title: Clef Author: Otto, Albert S., editor Place: Santa Monica, Calif., Publisher: Date: 1946 Description: March-Sept. 1946),Nos. 1-2 and 3-7, near-complete run, lacking only No.3 (May). Bound together in buckram. 6 x 9”, 16-32pp. per issue. Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, including front cover photos of Kid Ory, Zutty Singleton, Albert Nicholas, Wingy Manone, and Louis Armstrong. Very rare; WorldCat lists no copies held by any American institution. One of three Jazz magazines launched in southern California immediately after World War II – but the only one in Santa Monica. Otto, the editor, was a veteran, a printer before the war, who was beginning a career as a professional lecturer to fraternal clubs and high schools, calling himself an historian and later a (New Age) “philosopher” who became an ordained minister and founded his own church. His claimed to be co-chairman of a New Orleans Jazz Society and, later in life, gave lectures on jazz history, but, after only seven issues,he was happy to sell Clef to the American Jazz Review (which survived only a few months longer). Nonetheless, he did a creditable job in producing Clef, which included a wide variety of article on Jazz in the US, and, also notably, in England, but is of particular interest for its reviews of Jazz performers and performances, radio disc jockeys and record labels in Los Angeles, and the advertisements for a dozen long-forgotten Los Angeles record companies. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276152
Title: Clef Author: Otto, Albert S., editor Place: Santa Monica, Calif., Publisher: Date: 1946 Description: March-Sept. 1946),Nos. 1-2 and 3-7, near-complete run, lacking only No.3 (May). Bound together in buckram. 6 x 9”, 16-32pp. per issue. Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, including front cover photos of Kid Ory, Zutty Singleton, Albert Nicholas, Wingy Manone, and Louis Armstrong. Very rare; WorldCat lists no copies held by any American institution. One of three Jazz magazines launched in southern California immediately after World War II – but the only one in Santa Monica. Otto, the editor, was a veteran, a printer before the war, who was beginning a career as a professional lecturer to fraternal clubs and high schools, calling himself an historian and later a (New Age) “philosopher” who became an ordained minister and founded his own church. His claimed to be co-chairman of a New Orleans Jazz Society and, later in life, gave lectures on jazz history, but, after only seven issues,he was happy to sell Clef to the American Jazz Review (which survived only a few months longer). Nonetheless, he did a creditable job in producing Clef, which included a wide variety of article on Jazz in the US, and, also notably, in England, but is of particular interest for its reviews of Jazz performers and performances, radio disc jockeys and record labels in Los Angeles, and the advertisements for a dozen long-forgotten Los Angeles record companies. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276152
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