Black & White Records
Black & White Records was an American jazz , country and blues record label from the 1940s and 1950s.
history
Black & White Records was founded in 1943 by Les Schriber in Brooklyn . In 1945 the label was sold to Paul Reiner and his wife Lillian and was based in Los Angeles . There Ralph Bass produced recordings for the label.
Due to its history, Black & White Records published recordings of soloists and bands in the late 1940s who performed in the New York jazz clubs on 52nd Street and, in Jürgen Wölfer's opinion, offer "an instructive documentation of this scene". These include Rod Cless , George Wettling , Hank Duncan , Dick Cary , Art Hodes , Erroll Garner , Joe Marsala or Etta James / Barney Bigard . On the other hand, the label has recorded bands from the west coast, such as Red Callender , Jack McVea , Earle Spencer , Wilbert Baranco and Gerald Wilson . The label's first production in Los Angeles in 1946 was a recording of Jack McVea's "Open the Door, Richard", which went up to number 2 on the R&B charts. Lena Horne recorded two albums for the label in 1946 and 1947. Black & White also had a share in the success of rhythm and blues in the late 1940s with recordings by Helen Humes , Roosevelt Sykes and T-Bone Walker . The label also released tracks by Willie Smith , the Spirits of Rhythm , Will Osborne , Ivie Anderson , Jan Garber , Howard McGhee , Phil Moore , Nat Jaffe and Ernestine Anderson .
The catalog was later taken over by Capitol Records . The Pickwick label has re-released five CDs of the label's jazz recordings.
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literature
- Arnold Shaw Honkers and Shouters. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1978, pp. 226-228. ISBN 0-02-061740-2 .
- Jürgen Wölfer , Lexicon of Jazz. Vienna 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd edition)