James A. Harrod

James Harrod grew up in northern Wyoming and first began listening to jazz while in high school in the 1950s. After graduating from Portland State College in 1965, he moved to southern California where he was a bookseller until his retirement in 2002.

His publishing credits include liner notes for four compact disc reissues of Pacific Jazz artists: Bud Shank/Bill Perkins Quintets, and the Chet Baker Quartet Live (three volumes). He has written numerous articles for the Dutch discography journal, Names & Numbers. He conceived the World Wide Web exhibition, The Jazz Photography of Ray Avery, in 1994. His jazz research website, http://jazzresearch.com/, was registered and established in March of 2000. He maintains several jazz related blogs at Google Blogger.

All of my research has been transferred to my new website, the first line below:

http://jazzresearch.com

The google blogspots are still available if you prefer that format:

http://callioperecords.blogspot.com/2012/04/calliope-cal-3001-stars-of-jazz.html

http://jazzsceneusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/introduction-background-following.html

http://starsofjazz.blogspot.com/2012/09/introduction-background-commentary.html

http://pacificjazz.blogspot.com/2012/04/this-initial-post-covers-all-of-78-rpm.html

http://jazzwestcoastresearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-dave-brubeck-trio-fantasy-records.html

His research focuses on jazz in Los Angeles during the years 1945-1960.

Mr. Harrod is a member of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute.