Len Kunstadt

Len Kunstadt

Leonard Kunstadt (1925- April 24, 1996) was a scholar of jazz and blues music, and a record label manager.

Len Kunstadt was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was the son of Morris Kunstadt, a violinist and chess master, and Sophie Sherry Kunstadt, a writer and assistant to band leader Edwin Franko Goldman. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, Lenny graduated from New York University and began his prolific study of jazz and blues music. [cite web
url = http://www.spiveyrecords.com/aboutus.htm
title = Len Kunstadt biography
publisher = Spivey Records]

Also known as “Kazoo Papa," Len Kunstadt was the editor and publisher of 'Record Research' magazine, which he founded in the late 1950s, devoted to documenting the recording sessions of historic jazz and blues recordings. Kunstadt continued as editor and publisher of the magazine until the year of his death [cite news
url = http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1996/07/04/1996-07-04_a_lifetime_devoted_to_re-dis.html
title = A Lifetime Devoted to Re-Discovery
publisher = New York City News
date = 1996-07-14] . He co-authored (with Sam Charters) Jazz - A History of the New York Scene.

In 2001 he was awarded a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections). [cite web
url = http://www.arsc-audio.org/awards.html#2001
title = 2001 ARSC Awards
publisher = arsc-audio.org]

Kunstadt's papers and archival research were donated to the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

Kunstadt was the companion of Victoria Spivey, and together they created Spivey Records in 1960. He managed the label after her death in 1976.

References

External links

* [http://marbl.library.emory.edu/FindingAids/pdf.php?id=spivey809_1001897 Victoria Spivey Archives, including papers of Spivey Records, 1960-1976] , Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
* [http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/ Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries]
* [http://www.spiveyrecords.com/ Spivey Records]


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