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    "Lu Watter",
    "Yerba Buena Jazz Band",
    "Scott Joplin",
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  "textContent": "Contributed by Florian Hardwig\n\n\n _**Source: archive.org **License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nLu Watter’s Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, recorded Dec. 1941. [More info on Discogs]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Lilith** is an extrabold italic with partly open letterforms and horizontal hatching, further embellished with baroque mid-stem ornamentation in the capitals. Some details like the Fraktur-like construction of W reveal its German origin: Lilith was first cast by the Bauer foundry in 1930, after designs by Lucian Bernhard (1883–1972) who had left the country for New York seven years earlier.\n\nBauer had opened an office in New York in 1927. This way, Lilith was available in the United States as well. In the early 1940s, it was chosen for the logo of Jazz Man Records. Founded in 1941, the record label was an offshoot of David Stuart’s Jazz Man Record Shop on Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard (and in 1959 on L.A.’s West Pico Boulevard). In 1946, Stuart sold it to his ex-wife, Marili Morden and her new husband, Nesuhi Ertegun. According to Wikipedia, the label and its namesake shop “were in the vanguard of an international revival of traditional jazz in the 1940s.“\n\n\n\n\n _**Source: www.flickr.com **License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nGlyph set for Lilith from Penrose Annual 41, 1939, in an article on the “Victorian Revival” in typefaces by Robert Harling\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nLu Watter’s Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Muskrat Ramble by Ed Ory, recorded Dec. 1942. [More info on Discogs]\nThe secondary typefaces are **Koch-Antiqua** and **Bulmer**.\n\n\n\n\n\n _**Source: archive.org **License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nJohnny Wittwer – Ragtime Nightingale by Joseph Lamb, recorded Dec. 1945. [More info on Discogs]\nIn January 1947, the labels were redesigned in a green color, matching that of Crescent Records.\nSecondary typefaces are **Futura** and a slab serif that resembles Stymie Bold, but has a non-descending **J**.\n\n\n\nThis post was originally published at Fonts In Use\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Jazz Man record labels"
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