[78-L] A better Steinweiss obit

[Michael Biel]

Ironically the writer references us to his interview with George Avakian 
from last year where George claims that his Chicago Jazz Album on Decca 
was the first jazz album (it wasn't even Decca's first jazz album) and 
that his booklet was the first jazz liner notes.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 7/23/2011 9:51 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> At least in this one, the author calls Steinweiss "one of the earliest pioneers of the art marketing genre." There is still quite a lot of misinformation as to how album art started, but at least Steinweiss didn't father the whole durned industry. Plus, the author had the good sense to talk to George Avakian and Paul Bacon, who were there to see Steinweiss's work when it came out.
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> http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/07/alex-steinweiss.html
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> Cary Ginell