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Notable members

Centenarians

• Juanita Boisseau (de) (1911–2012)

Her professional debut was in 1928 ini Blackbirds; she performed as a chorus girl in both Cotton Clubs and toured extensively throughout Europe in the Cotton Club Review of 1937 as a solo dancer. She was in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. She also did choreography for the Hollywood Club in Hollywood.

Possible resources

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Note about Music Dial

The Music Dial — Voice of the Amusement World

Music Dial Publishing Co.

321 W. 1125th St., Suite 5

New York 27, New York

Ray Parker, Managing Editor

Registered in the State of New York, 1943

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During my club days I became associated with a magazine called, The Music Dial which I supported. It was faltering before I got there (early 1944). I felt that it needed a larger format and of course that meant money, so I put some funds in it. The magazine was an outspoken, progressive publication which campaigned the racial problem with zeal. We became marked as radical publishers. The magazine became a platform for negro musicians to stand up for their rights. The negro newspapers would not take on our rights unless we paid for it and then they would edit most everything. The Music Dial was the first negro magazine to be recognized on Broadway, before Ebony, Jet, and others came on the scene. It was the first magazine to give Charlie Parker recognition. Jimmy Butts, Happy Caldwell, and Rudy Powell, among others wrote columns for us. Our ads best represented the Harlem scene. We had ads from Minton's Playhouse, Palm Cafe, Small's, Paradise, Apollo, Lucky's (Luckey Roberts), Savoy Ballroom, my Heat Wave and many, many others. Ads came in from main nighteries and other parts of the country too. Cozy Cole and Walter 'Foots' Thomas ran their music school ads pretty regularly. Commodore and Moses Asch had record ads in the magazine. Even haberdasheries, jewelers and dry cleaners supported us with their ads. The circulation was well up in the thousands, however the paper shortage (it was the wartime) and other factors were to hurt the magazine later on and cause it to discontinue.

– Louis Metcalf??

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