Old Wine, New Bottles: Record Collecting, Jazz Reissues, and the Jazz Tradition

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Steven F. Pond
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ABSTRACT This article argues that reissues – whether in the form of repackaged and re-released recordings that have gone out of print, recordings republished in new media with the change of playback technology, or collected as historical compilation albums – form a hub of activities by jazz collectors, critics, producers, and historians – roles often filled by the same person. As curated aural texts, reissues, in recurring fashion over jazz’s recorded past, form connective tissue for the distorted historical narrative of jazz as representing a “coherent whole.” The article tracks three broad historical moments in which reissues have played a crucial role in constructing the “jazz tradition” commonly portrayed in textbooks: (1) the rise of the reissues market through Commodore Records, (2) the pairing of collected tracks on compilation albums with a flourishing jazz history book trade in the postwar era, and (3) combining nostalgia for music of past decades with the advent of new recording and playback technology, and the move to remastered, completist collectors' series exemplified by Mosaic Records at the turn of the 21st century. The article ends with speculation about how the most recent uptick in reissuing might aid in disrupting the “jazz tradition” edifice.
旧酒,新瓶:唱片收集,爵士重新发行,和爵士传统
摘要本文认为,重新发行——无论是以绝版的重新包装和重新发行的唱片的形式,还是随着播放技术的改变而在新媒体上重新发布的唱片,或是作为历史汇编专辑收集的唱片——都是爵士乐收藏者、评论家、制作人和历史学家的活动中心——角色往往由同一个人扮演。作为精心策划的听觉文本,在爵士乐记录的过去中以反复出现的方式重新发行,形成了爵士乐扭曲的历史叙事的连接组织,代表了一个“连贯的整体”。“这篇文章追踪了三个广泛的历史时刻,在这些时刻,重新发行在构建教科书中常见的“爵士乐传统”中发挥了至关重要的作用:(1)通过Commodore Records重新发行市场的兴起,(2)汇编专辑中收集的曲目与战后繁荣的爵士乐历史书籍交易相结合,以及(3)将对过去几十年音乐的怀念与新的录音和播放技术的出现相结合,并在21世纪之交转向以Mosaic Records为例的重新制作的完整收藏家系列。这篇文章的结尾是关于最近重新发行的增加可能有助于破坏“爵士乐传统”大厦的猜测。
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Jazz Perspectives Arts and Humanities-Music
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