THE CRESCENDO ARCHIVES |
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History is made every day and, as far as the music scene is concerned, Crescendo has faithfully recorded it month by month. To many, the articles and features are more than of passing interest. We carefully file our copies in the prescribed binders and delight from time to time in turning back the years to revive memories and to seek information. The one thing lacking in this work of reference is an index. What a boon it would be if someone had the time and patience to compile a complete index going back to issue No. l! Wally Horwood |
Those are the words of Wally Horwood, at first technical editor
and then, for many years, co-director of Crescendo & Jazz Music.
He wrote them in June 1975 in volume 13, number 11 of the magazine. |
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READ EVERY WORD EVER PUBLISHED IN CRESCENDO & JAZZ MUSIC MAGAZINE SINCE IT FIRST APPEARED AT THE TOUCH OF A KEY! INSTANT RETRIEVAL OF WORDS OR PHRASES The Crescendo Archives database contains every word ever written in the magazine from its first issue to that of the present day. The Archives constitute a fully searchable 11,000 page digital text–only document that can be read, page by page, as if browsing through the original volumes. Entering a name, part of a name or a fragment of some remembered phrase brings up, in a millisecond, a list of issues containing the searched item, to be browsed through, with ultra–fast page turning, zoom, copy and paste facilities. The above words of Wally Horwood were found, for example, by typing index AND Crescendo in the search dialogue box and retrieved within a few seconds from a database containing some 9,000,000 words! |
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The Archives are contained on four CD ROM disks readable
on PC Windows and Macintosh. They can be viewed individually or downloaded
to the computer hard disk for even easier reading.
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The Harry Francis Memoirs
Included in the package are all of the Harry Francis articles in the series Jazz Development In Britain, As I Was Playing and As I Heard It. They constitute an unparalleled history of British jazz from a man who was in the midst of it all right from the very beginning. |
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This is what you can do with the Crescendo Archives
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