Jacqueline Steiner, RIP

[paul secor]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/obituaries/jacqueline-steiner-dead.html

She co-wrote "M.T.A.", the Kingston Trio hit of the early 1960's, but what interested me was the mention of Max Margulis, "a founder of Blue Note Records". I was unaware of that until today. (Always good to learn something new.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Margulis

[clifford_thornton]

I remember Margulis from Cook's book.

[optatio]

"The Blue Note label initially consisted of Lion and Max Margulis, a communist writer who funded the project." See "Early years" in "Blue Note Records" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Note_Records

[paul secor]

Does anyone know when Max Margulis left Blue Note?

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, optatio said:

"The Blue Note label initially consisted of Lion and Max Margulis, a communist writer who funded the project."

Ok then, now I get it!

[optatio]

22 hours ago, paul secor said:

Does anyone know when Max Margulis left Blue Note?

In 1947, Max Margulis retired from the business and sold his shares to Alfred Lion. Source: http://www.omm.de/feuilleton/blue-note.html

[mjzee]

35 minutes ago, optatio said:

In 1947, Max Margulis retired from the business and sold his shares to Alfred Lion. Source: http://www.omm.de/feuilleton/blue-note.html

Interesting...the same year BN went full-on into modern jazz.  And didn't they go into hibernation in 1946?  The "official" explanation is that Lion wanted to fully understand the changes going on in the jazz world, but there may have also been a change in the business side.  Maybe something like: Lion wanted to go fully modern, Margulis was a moldy fig, they didn't agree, Margulis wanted to get out, it took some time for Lion to get the funding to buy out Margulis.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

In 1947, Max Margulis retired from the business and sold his shares to Alfred Lion. Source: http://www.omm.de/feuilleton/blue-note.html

Thanks.