Scott Yanow
| Scott Yanow | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 4, 1954 New York, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, music critic |
Scott Yanow (born October 4, 1954) is an American jazz reviewer, historian and author. He has written 11 books on jazz, reviewed over 20,000 recordings and been active since the mid-1970s.[1]
Biography
Born in New York, Yanow grew up near Los Angeles. He discovered Dixieland in the Danny Kaye movie The Five Pennies and on a daily radio show while in high school. He soon broadened his tastes to the swing idiom and in college, after purchasing a Charlie Parker album that included "White Christmas" (which made it easier for him to appreciate bebop), he soon developed a strong taste and musical curiosity for all eras of jazz, from dixieland to the avant-garde, Fusion to modern jazz.[1]
Shortly after graduating from college, Yanow became the jazz editor for Record Review, being a major participant in all thirty three of its issues. Since Record Review closed in June 1984, Yanow has written for many jazz magazines and arts magazines, including JazzTimes, Jazziz, Down Beat, Cadence, CODA and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene. In recent times, Yanow was interviewed on-camera by CNN about the Monterey Jazz Festival and by Arts & Entertainment for their televised American Masters biography on Dizzy Gillespie.
Yanow was a contributor to and co-editor of the third edition of the All Music Guide to Jazz. He contributed thousands of additional CD reviews to the third edition. He is one of the most prolific jazz record reviewers in history. He continues to write for Downbeat, Jazziz, the Los Angeles Jazz Scene, the Jazz Rag and Inside Jazz.
In addition to writing over 700 liner notes, Yanow has written eleven books on jazz (see bibliography below), and written artist biographies and press releases for record labels, public relations firms and individual artists.
Yanow has produced a series of CDs for the Allegro record label, worked as a consultant to other labels about their reissue projects, hosted a regular radio show (Jazz After Hours) for KCSN-FM, and worked as the jazz listings editor for the Los Angeles Times.
Bibliography
- Books
- Duke Ellington (November 1999) ISBN 1-56799-855-0
- Swing (April 2000) ISBN 978-0-87930-600-7
- Bebop (August 2000) ISBN 978-0-87930-608-3
- Afro-Cuban Jazz (December 2000) ISBN 978-0-87930-619-9
- Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet (August 2001) ISBN 978-0-87930-640-3
- Classic Jazz (December 2001) ISBN 978-0-87930-659-5
- Jazz on Film, The Complete History of the Musicians and Music Onscreen (October 2004) ISBN 978-0-87930-783-7
- Jazz on Record – The First Sixty Years (October 2003) ISBN 978-0-87930-755-4
- Jazz: A Regional Exploration (February 28, 2005) ISBN 978-0-31332-871-8
- The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide (September 2008) ISBN 978-0-87930-825-4
- The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide (April 2013) ISBN 978-1-61713-023-6
- Contributions to magazines
- Record Review
- Coda
- Down Beat
- Jazz Times
- JAZZIZ
- Cadence
- The Mississippi Rag
- Jazz Forum
- Jazz News
- The Jazz Report
- Planet Jazz
- Jazz Now
- Jazz Improv
- The Los Angeles Jazz Scene
- Contributions to record labels
- Concord Records
- Naxos Records
- Enja
- Pablo Records
- Arbors Records
- Evidence
- V.S.O.P.
- Good Time Jazz
- Reservoir
- Storyville Records
- JVC
- Challenge Records
- Starline
- Candid Records
- Soundies
- Woofy
- Brownstone
- Fuel 2000
- Jazzed Media
- Collectors Classics
- Allegro
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