American Music Records

American Music Records was an American record label of New Orleans jazz.

History of the record label

American Music was founded in the early 1940s by Bill Russell; as a place of business was his house in his hometown of Canton ( Missouri); Beginning of the 60 Russell moved to New Orleans. Russell had worked in the 1930s as avant-garde and classical composer, influenced, inter alia, by John Cage. Under the influence of jazz music from New Orleans, he ended his activities as a composer and was from then on worked as a producer. Russell took for the catalog of American Music, among others Artists on the New Orleans Jazz as Kid Howard, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis and Jim Robinson. Russell published it only in very small quantities and not pressed them after so that its red vinyl 78s were very popular back in the 1950s, including in London. After the phase of the 78's he brought to 1957, a series of LPs on the market. Reissues the company appeared in the 1970s on the Danish label Storyville Records.

By 1988 Russell sold the label to George H. Buck, of annexing his label GHB / Jazzology Records and released the recordings on compact disc. In addition to Russell's original recordings Buck also brought historical photographs of New Orleans Jazz, who had appeared previously at another label, such as Icon Records.