Carl Cons
- Writer
Carl E. Cons was the co-founding editor and co-owner of Downbeat
magazine, the jazz magazine at the height of the jazz era. Within one
year (1935-36) he was able to help establish DownBeat as a credible
national publication. Carl Cons was more of a dramatic writer and
entertainer than a journalist, and some at the magazine found his style
questionable. He was also a co-owner of a jazz night club in Chicago
where they high-lighted many popular and new jazz artists of his time.
When the war came and his night club mysteriously burnt down, he
decided to sell his interests and moved to California. After the war,
he found employment with Walt Disney as a writer shortly before the
year Disneyland opened and then eventually moved to RKO studios as a
director. Carl Cons passed away in Oct. 1990 of cardiac arrest, he was
81 years old.