RIP Maynard Solomon, 90, Vanguard Co-Founder

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Co-founder (with his brother Seymour) of the Vanguard label. Also a music biographer & musicologist.
Over time Vanguard and its Bach Guild label released an impressively diverse catalog of valuable recordings, especially of overlooked works, and issued pivotal albums of folk music, blues and jazz. The classical repertory included English madrigals, overlooked Bach cantatas, masses by Haydn and a landmark survey of the complete Mahler symphonies with Maurice Abravanel conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra.

During the height of McCarthyism in the mid-1950s, Vanguard signed blacklisted performers including the bass-baritone Paul Robeson and the Weavers, whose 1956 release “The Weavers at Carnegie Hall” helped spark a revival of folk music in America. Vanguard became one of the industry’s leading folk and blues labels, releasing important albums by Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Odetta, Mississippi John Hurt, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and other acts. Jazz artists like Elvin Jones, Larry Coryell and Oregon also recorded for Vanguard, as did the rock group Country Joe and the Fish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/arts/music/maynard-solomon-dead.html
 
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