HRS Records

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HRS Records was founded in 1938 independent American Jazz - Label , located on Hot Jazz specialized.

HRS Records was created as a label of the Hot Record Society founded by Steve Smith . While the United Hot Clubs of America (UHCA) , founded two years earlier by Milt Gabler and Stephen W. Smith , had relocated to the republication of long-running jazz classics, from 1938 HRS Records concentrated on the distribution of original recordings by mail order . In 1939 Smith opened the HRS Record Shop in Midtown Manhattan , where you could buy used and new jazz records as well as jazz magazines and books.

Pee Wee Russell, New York, 1946, photo: William P. Gottlieb

A total of 124 tracks were recorded in 25 sessions at HRS Records between August 1938 and September 1947, by Pee Wee Russell (whose baby, Won't You Please Come Home? Was created in the first session), Sidney Bechet / Muggsy Spanier , Rex Stewart , Jack Teagarden ( St. James Infirmary ), Sandy Williams , JC Higginbotham , Jimmy Jones , Babe Matthew / Joe Thomas , Harry Carney , Dicky Wells , Buck Clayton , Trummy Young , Billy Kyle , Russell Procope , Billy Taylor , Rex Stewart and Brick Fleagle (1945). The label also released older jazz recordings, including a. of the Wolverine Orchestra (1924), the Chicago Loopers (a studio band led by Bix Beiderbecke , Frank Trumbauer and Frank Signorelli ), the Cellar Boys , the Louisiana Rhythm Kings (1929), as well as Billy Banks , Bessie Smith , Fletcher Henderson , Louis Armstrong and Miff Mole .

After the end of HRS, many sessions were released on LPs by Riverside and Atlantic Records , also in Europe as bootlegs . The recordings were re-released as The Complete HRS Sessions in a 6-CD box in 1999 on Mosaic Records .

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  1. ↑ a b c Review of The Complete HRS Sessions by Jack Solmer (1999) at JazzTimes
  2. ↑ Consisting of Bix Beiderbecke, George Brunies , Jimmy Hartwell , George Johnson, Dick Voynow, Bob Gillette, Min Leibrook , Vic Moore.
  3. ↑ Recordings from 1930 a. a. with Wingy Manone , Frank Teschemacher , Bud Freeman , Frank Melrose , George Wettling
  4. ↑ Consists of Red Nichols , Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan , Dave Tough
  5. ↑ Discographic information according to Tom Lord Jazz Discography (online)
  6. ↑ The Complete HRS Sessions at Discogs