Musicraft Records

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

The label

The catalog of Musicraft included musicians of different styles of classical music, folk, jazz, Latin jazz, popular song titles and Calypso. Among the artists who started on the label, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Joe Marsala Lee Castle, Slim Gaillard, Dizzy Gillespie and the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band included ( " Shaw Nuff " ), the bebop comedian Harry "the Hipster " Gibson, Teddy Wilson, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Artie Shaw and Duke Ellington Orchestra, which included recordings from 1946 to the last productions of the label.

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

The composer and musician Walter Gross was working as A & R and arranger for the label in the late 1940s. End of the 40s Peter Fritsch led the company Musicraft before he founded his company Lyrichord discs. Involved in the company was Duke Ellington.

After the end of the company's promoter Albert Marx bought the catalog of the company and released several tracks on his label Discovery Records.