Hank on the cover of Japanese downbeat

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

what the hell?  it appears this is really from 1961, but hank never made the US cover ever, right?  or do i just not know about it.  i guess i havent ever seen a discog. of all the downbeat mags......is there an american counterpart to this, if there is im gonna need to get one of those.  i have a few old downbeats, hanks really in almost every issue for a time, cause they have lots of blue note ads......

[Big Beat Steve]

Interesting discovery.

I didn't know DB ran a Japanese spinoff. Was this "legit" and endorsed (maybe even co-published) by DB or a ripoff/freeloader trying to cash in on the famous name?

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i dunno dawg but its the exact some logo, no?  maybe its like "french vogue" or somethin like that, u know

[Big Beat Steve]

Yes it IS the same logo.

As for "Vogue", the French and UK record labels were sort of brothers.

Don't know about the Vogue mag, though.

 

That may may well have been "legit", but as we all know by 1960 the nipponese were well under way raiding everything copyable (and sellable) in the world for copying and plagiarizing, so why would they stop short of a mag that looked promising?

[Dan Gould]

That's pretty cool. I wonder if our DB alum can shed light on the question. Really makes me wonder what was written about him, it was right around the time that his Soul Station - Roll Call - Workout brilliance was 'new'.

[JSngry]

Japanese DB appears to have been monthly, American DB was published, what was it called, "fortnightly" (except for one month a year)? up until the late 70s..

[JSngry]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Down-Beat-jazz-magazine-Japanese-Edition-Nov-1961-Horace-Silver-cover-/331630675736?hash=item4d36ba8718

This is an original printing of the authorized Japanese edition of Down Beat magazine published by Shoichi Kusano and Shinko Music Publishing Company of Tokyo. All articles are in Japanese. Many are translated from the U.S. edition but there is some original content produced for the Japanese edition. Many photos, ads, record reviews.
 

http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=767

http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=768

[Dan Gould]

So was there original DB content about Hank around that time?  I thought Hank didn't get personal attention from DB until the interview/feature in the 70s. (Was that Litweiler who wrote it? I can't recall now ...)

[JSngry]

Yeah, John wrote that landmark (imo) article.

[JSngry]

Also of interest to me is the photography credits. Other than Charles Stewart, none of those names really jump out at me as familiar. Not taht I'm hardcore about noticing that, but, but for so much of this era of this music, the visual iconography has been kinda locked down by certain images of certain photographers (and not without good cause). Abd/But, it might be refreshing to see these people through a different eye/lens. Or not, you know how that goes. And maybe/probably these were the same photos used in the American issues.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897546,00.html

When the first Japanese-language version of the U.S. jazz magazine Down Beat hit the stands in Tokyo this summer, an 18-year-old university student wrote the publishers his fervent thanks: "To me your magazine is as a mountain guide to an amateur Alpinist." Japanese enthusiasts are finding the cool air of American jazz a mighty heady place.

 

[Mark Stryker]

Japanese DB appears to have been monthly, American DB was published, what was it called, "fortnightly" (except for one month a year)? up until the late 70s..

Every two weeks, except monthly in July and August I believe -- would have to check at home to be 100% sure. (June has me confused.) 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

oh god, i was comparing to "french vogue" as in the fashion magazine.....not the music label lol

[clifford_thornton]

oh god, i was comparing to "french vogue" as in the fashion magazine.....not the music label lol

haha yeah I thought of the labels first as well!

[Larry Kart]

Also of interest to me is the photography credits. Other than Charles Stewart, none of those names really jump out at me as familiar. Not taht I'm hardcore about noticing that, but, but for so much of this era of this music, the visual iconography has been kinda locked down by certain images of certain photographers (and not without good cause). Abd/But, it might be refreshing to see these people through a different eye/lens. Or not, you know how that goes. And maybe/probably these were the same photos used in the American issues.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897546,00.html

When the first Japanese-language version of the U.S. jazz magazine Down Beat hit the stands in Tokyo this summer, an 18-year-old university student wrote the publishers his fervent thanks: "To me your magazine is as a mountain guide to an amateur Alpinist." Japanese enthusiasts are finding the cool air of American jazz a mighty heady place.

 

Am not familiar with the work of Bert Andrews or David Workman, but Lawrence or Larence (spelled both ways, it seems) N. Shustak, and Ted Williams were  jazz photo regulars.

 

http://shustak.org/life_history

 

http://larenceshustak.photoshelter.com

 

http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a79871-b22914-c23946/ted-williams-jazz-photography-prints.htm

 

http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2012/04/preserving-ted-williams-photographs.html

 

http://jazztimes.com/sections/news/articles/25238-jazz-photographer-ted-williams-dies

 

Here’s some info on Bert Andrews:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Andrews_(photographer)