Storyville Records
Storyville Records is a 1950 by Karl Emil Knudsen ( 1929-2003 ), a jazz record collector ( and at that time an employee of the Copenhagen Telephone Company ), founded independent Danish jazz and blues label. Originally the traditional jazz and blues reserved, the repertoire was later extended by recordings in the field of modern jazz.
History
The label is named after the entertainment district Storyville in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Knudsen was also co-founder of " Storyville clubs " in Copenhagen, a meeting place for old-time jazz. He began as an importer of jazz records, which he exchanged for the coveted abroad Danish jazz records. The acquaintance with Chris Barber, who also worked for the British Tempo Records, gave him first licenses. One of the first publications listed reissues of recordings by Ma Rainey, " Clarence Williams Blue Five" and James P. Johnson - the first publication ever was by Louis Armstrong in the Red Onion Jazz Babes ( 1924). Soon, however, new recordings of gas- animal border in Denmark foreign jazz musicians were added, first by " Ken Colyer 's Jazz Men", in the Storyville played in Copenhagen in 1953.
Activities
Storyville also released reissues of recordings of many classic jazz and blues musicians who appeared earlier, for example at Paramount Records, American Music and Records Southland Records. The passionate record collector Knudsen (nicknamed Dr. Archaeology of Jazz ) was known for unearthing unreleased material.
The musicians of the label include Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia ), Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Stephane Grappelli, Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Art Tatum, Sweets Edison, Dexter Gordon, Thad Jones, Kenny Drew, Howard McGhee, Wild Bill Davison, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, violinist Svend Asmussen, Alex Riel, " Fessor 's Big City Band", Acker Bilk, Papa Bue 's Viking Jazz Band, Champion Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim, as well as Lee Konitz, James Spaulding and John Tchicai. Storyville also published historical photographs of the Danish jazz pioneer Leo Mathisen and the debut recordings by Niels Lan Doky and the Danish pianist Carsten Dahl. The most commercially successful musicians of the catalog were the Traditional jazz musicians to Papa Bue. During unfavorable for mainstream jazz 1970s, the label also survived by its diversification in the Pop in Knudsen Sonet label, which he sold to Polygram in 1991 and again turned exclusively to jazz.
Storyville is now the oldest European independent record labels in jazz. The label also publishes books and videos ( under the umbrella Society "Jazz Media " ) and gives jazz discographies out ( for example, the elfbändige Jazz Records 1945-1962 by Jorgen Grunnet Jepsen and Erik Raben ). Since the 1980s, they also produce your own music films. After the death of the founder Knudsen in September 2003, the label initially close of Knudsen's employees, Anders Stefanson was passed and adopted by the biggest Danish music publisher Edition Wilhelm Hansen 2005, which in turn belong to the Music Sales Group.
The label should not be confused with the eponymous American jazz label Storyville by George Wein, which existed until 1965.