Jazzology
Jazzology is a jazz label founded in 1949 by George H. Buck . It mainly publishes traditional jazz and mainstream jazz , but also blues and modern jazz.
The first recordings were made in 1949, Sessions under the direction of Tony Parenti , and then did not come out again until 1954, under the sub-label GHB. Jazz in the Chicago style was brought out by Jazzology, in the New Orleans style by GHB. The headquarters moved to Columbia (South Carolina) as part of the label's expansion . From the mid-1960s, other labels with traditional jazz were bought: Icon, MONO (Music of New Orleans), Circle Records , Southland, Jazz Crusade. Big band music of the swing era was released on Circle (previously on the sub-label World on Jazzology). In 1970 they took over the Paramount label from John Steiner .
1973 to 1975 there was an interruption and a setback when RCA Records , which until then had taken over the pressing and production of the albums, parted with this business and destroyed all master tapes in the process. The label moved to Atlanta during this time . The mid-1970s they acquired Audiophile Records and 1980. Jazz Record of Art Hodes and 1981 the long-Worth catalog. Lang-Worth was a record company founded by Cy Langlois in the late 1930s, which existed until the 1940s and brought out Jimmie Lunceford , Fats Waller and Count Basie on large discs for radio stations, among others . Jazzology acquired the rights from Fred Norman, who had owned them since the mid-1970s. 1983 Jazzology took over the label Bodeswell (from Bob Wilber ), 1985 Monmouth Evergreen and 1984 the label Progressive from Gus Statira . In 1990 they acquired American Music Records , a New Orleans jazz label founded by Bill Russell in 1944.
Today the group has the sub-labels Jazzology Records (with traditional Chicago jazz), American Music Records (authentic New Orleans jazz), GHB Records (jazz in New Orleans style), Black Swan Records (reissues from Black Swan Records , Founded in 1921 by African-Americans in Harlem and taken over by Paramount Records in 1924 , 1920s Jazz and Blues), Solo Art Records (pianists), Audiophile Records (in which classic American popular music appears), Circle Records (big bands), Southland Records ( Blues) and Progressive Records (modern jazz).
Jazzology also maintained the Collector's Record Club, which started publishing the CRC newsletter in 1978. The label publishes a Jazzology newsletter.
literature
- GH Buck: Jazzology: 1949–1979, in Jazzology Newsletter, V / 2, 1979, 2
- Entry in Barry Kernfeld (ed.), Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Macmillan 1988