This research originally appeared in the Dutch discography journal, Names & Numbers, No. 82, July 2017, in slightly different form and content. The January 23, 1958, issue of Down Beat published a notice in the opening “strictly ad lib” New York column that summarized a series of recording sessions that took place in December, 1957, […]
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Johnny Mandel & Dick Bock
Johnny Mandel had a noteworthy role in the early success of Dick Bock’s Pacific Jazz label. From February of 1954 until August of 1958 Mandel’s composing/arranging hand embellished eleven albums.
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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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A commemorative booklet included in THE ANTHOLOGY OF INDIAN MUSIC VOLUME ONE (World Pacific WDS-26200) has a brief closing remembrance by Dick Bock wherein he recalls his first meeting with Ravi Shankar. This recollection does not agree with Ravi Shankar’s own recollection published in RAGA MALA – an autobiography RAVI SHANKAR (Welcome Rain Publishers, 1997), […]
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Frequent visitors to this blog will have noticed a variety of addresses for Pacific Jazz / World Pacific on the backs of the EP covers and catalogues. The first location was at 6124 Santa Monica Boulevard above the retail space for Roy Harte’s and Remo Belli’s DRUM CITY. The space was an apartment that Roy […]
Continue ReadingPacific Jazz Founder – Dick Bock
Richard Eugene Bock was born in Syracuse, New York, on January 22, 1927. When he was eight years old the family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where Bock attended grammar and high school. Bock was active in music related classes in high school where his graduation picture in the 1944 high school year book noted that […]
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