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The 9000^th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is an issue of the periodical Oh! Play That Thing with no date or issue number… but apparently released in late 1952.

Probably the last issue? according to RIPMJazz Oh! Play That Thing alias OPT was published between 1948 and 1952 by The San Francisco Record Society.

CEMJazz call number: cmj-rv-173-1-1.

The 8000^th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is a record from the Michel Pfau collection. This beautiful 78rpm, 10“ shellac ODEON SWING MUSIC SERIES, was released in Switzerland in the late 1930s.

'Recorded in the U.S.A', two tracks to listen to, by The Chocolate Dandies: Dee Blues and Got Another Sweetie Now.

CEMJazz call number: mpf-78t-25cm-12-9.

The 7000^th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is is this black and white photograph of the pianist “Big Joe” Duskin, taken Paris in 1995.

Dated April 3, 1995, the photograph was taken, probably by Michel Pfau, at the home of Jean-Paul Amouroux in Paris.

CEMJazz call number: mpf-docp-phot-7-11.

The 6000^th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is the score of 'Savannah Blues' (Hot Blues) by R. Garriguenc, created and played by Jo Bouillon and his famous Jazz du Casino de Paris. Published by 'Les Editions de Paris' in 1934.

Our photo of Jo Bouillon's orchestra (CEMJazz call number: obr-docp-phot-4-5) is probably a little more recent (1937?)

CEMJazz call number: obr-puni-imp-ledp1-1.

The 5000^th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is the issue no 61 (August-September 1973) of “Doctor Jazz Magazine” revue.

The last “paper” issue of Docteur Jazz Magazine, the oldest Jazz mag in the Netherlands -founded in 1963- was published by spring 2023. Liefhebbers van traditionele jazz 1900-1955 (traditional Jazz lovers), may still consult the website doctorjazz.nl.

CEMJazz call number: cmj-rv-110-1-61.

The 4000th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is a photograph from the Michel Pfau collection.
CEMJazz call number mpf-docp-phot-1-13.

This portrait of Jelly Roll Morton is captioned (in faded ink) “Washington, May 1937”.

The silver print on glossy paper (format 20.6cm X 25.5cm), unsigned, has lived a little. The photo must have been framed in its time, the edges are damaged or even slightly torn, they are holes in the corners and traces of adhesive tape and glue; but that's not what we're looking at in this photo…

The 3000th item indexed in the CEMJazz database is a 45rpm EP from the Jean-Pierre Daubresse collection.
CEMJazz shelf mark jpd-45t-17cm-1-16.

This 45rpm “Melodisc” EPM7-56 was released in the UK around 1955.

[…] The four tracks on this E.P. are but a small part of the canvas that makes up the picture of New Orleans but they are authentic and a vital part of the whole […]

Tony Parenti and his Basin Street Quartet

Four titles:
A1: I use to love you. A2: Cecilia.
B1: Louisiana. B2: Baby won't you please come home.

Credits:
-Tony Parenti (Clarinet) -Chink Martin (String Bass-Tuba) -Armand Hug (Piano) -Abbie Brunies (Drums).

The 2000th item indexed in our database is a 10” 33rpm LP of the label “PALM CLUB” bearing the catalog number PALM 10.
CEMJazz shelf mark mpf-33t-25cm-al2-6.

There is no hard cover and the labels on sides A and B are stingy with information. This record was obviously published in France, but we don't know much about this label.

Nevertheless, the tracks would have been recorded on December 14, 1938 for Martin Block's WNEW Swing Show. We would therefore hear Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, Albert Casey and George Wettling.

Strangely enough, the rare “PALM 10” referenced on the web do not have the same list of titles on side B (Old Time Blues, Jeepers Creepers, I Got Rhythm) as ours.

As of May 14, 2022, the CEMJazz database also references PALM CLUB No 6, 7, 9 to 13, 17, 20, and 22.

This sapphire record 'Perfectaphone' is the thousandth item indexed in the CEMJazz database.
CEMJazz shelf mark obr-saphir-2729-6-12.

The Perfectaphone brand was founded in 1919 by Constantin Furn. This 29cm Sapphire record, with the label “angel playing the lyre”, bears the catalog number 1436 and dates from around 1925.

The two titles: “Un soir” and “Elle est jolie, jolie” are presented as Fox-Trot and certainly have “jazzistic” claims.

We also know that, among other celebrities, “Gregoire Nakchounian & his Russian North Stars” or Guy Paquinet with the “Melody Six” performed by 1925 at the cabaret “Le Chateau Caucasien” located Rue Pigalle in Paris. Here, the orchestra is not credited but it is, without a doubt, Mario Cazes Orchestra.