Musicraft Records

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Musicraft-78 from Harry "the Hipster" Gibson
78er by Sarah Vaughan on Musicraft: "I Cover the Waterfront"

Musicraft Records was an American classical, jazz , and blues record label that existed in the 1930s and 1940s.

The label

Musicraft's catalog included musicians of various styles from classical music, folk , jazz , Latin jazz , popular vocal tracks and also calypso . Artists who recorded on the label included Mel Tormé , Sarah Vaughan , Duke Ellington , Joe Marsala Lee Castle , Slim Gaillard , Dizzy Gillespie and his Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ("Shaw Nuff"), bebop comedian Harry "the Hipster “Gibson , Teddy Wilson , Leadbelly , Carl Sandburg , Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld , Artie Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra , whose 1946 recordings were among the label's last productions.

The label's first album was a set of songs from the musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein , which was released by Musicraft in 1938.

The composer and musician Walter Gross worked as A&R and arranger for the label in the late 1940s. At the end of the 1940s, Peter Fritsch ran Musicraft before founding his company Lyrichord Discs . Duke Ellington was involved in the company .

After the company closed, promoter Albert Marx bought the company's catalog and released several titles on his Discovery Records label .

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