A New Jazz Discography

Brian Rust, the jazz writer and lecturer, tells us that the result of eight years' concentrated labours will be on sale early next year. This will be a huge volume of all known jazz and ragtime records made between 1897 and 1931, including blues artists, semi-jazz dance bands and an enormous amount of hitherto unpublished material on the personnels, titles, issue numbers, matrix- and take-numbers, locations and dates of thousands of accepted instrumental jazz records. A second volume, dealing with the period from 1932 to 1942, is being prepared by the same author.

The first volume will comprise over 1,000 pages, and will appear in a limited edition of 1,000 copies only, at £3 lOs., or £4 if ordered after October 1st. Interested readers can reserve copies by remitting to the author at 38 Grimsdyke Road, Hatch End, Middlesex. All subscriptions will be acknowledged and every copy will be numbered in strict rotation according to receipt of order.