The Phil Moore Masters Albert Marx acquired a working knowledge of all aspects of record production during his years with Brunswick and Musicraft, sufficient know-how to establish his own company. However the demise of these two major independent labels hinted at the precarious nature of the record business as the source of a stable income […]
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Albert Marx: ARC & Musicraft
The music career of Albert Marx spanned six decades from the early 1930s well into the 1980s. Leonard Feather wrote a profile of Albert Marx that was published in the October 1982 issue of JazzTimes, “The Marxmanship of Albert.” Feather compared Marx with John Hammond and Norman Granz observing that he differs from the […]
Continue ReadingThe Clef, 1841 Club, Duffy’s Gayety
The venue at 1841 N. Cahuenga Boulevard was known as Mary Louise of Hollywood in the 1930s when luncheon was served during noon contract bridge lectures. Noontime tea and biscuits disappeared in the mid thirties when a liquor license was issued to Carl Arnot and his White Horse Tavern featuring dining, dancing, and entertainment. The […]
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Albert Marx resigned as A&R vice president at Musicraft in the spring of 1948 when that label was undergoing reorganization. He moved to Los Angeles that summer and established Discovery Records, Hollywood, in the fall of 1948. A Hollywood column in the September 4, 1948, issue of Billboard magazine noted that “Marx leaves here September […]
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