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Commodore Records was a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
-based independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 known for issuing many well regarded recordings of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and swing music.

Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938
1938 in music

Events* January 16**Benny Goodman plays the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.**B?la Bart?k's Sonata for two pianos and percussion is premiered in Basel....
 by Milt Gabler
Milt Gabler

Milton Gabler was an United states record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century....
, owner of the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The bulk of Commodore's issues were of Dixieland
Dixieland

Dixieland music or sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s....
 jazz, though other styles also sometimes appeared on the label. Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon

Albert Edwin Condon , better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion....
 recorded frequently for the label, with such notables as George Brunies
George Brunies

George Brunies, aka Georg Brunis, was a well-known early jazz trombonist.George Clarence Brunies was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 6, 1902 into a very musical family....
 and Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
 often in his band.






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Commodore Records was a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
-based independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 known for issuing many well regarded recordings of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and swing music.

Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938
1938 in music

Events* January 16**Benny Goodman plays the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.**B?la Bart?k's Sonata for two pianos and percussion is premiered in Basel....
 by Milt Gabler
Milt Gabler

Milton Gabler was an United states record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century....
, owner of the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The bulk of Commodore's issues were of Dixieland
Dixieland

Dixieland music or sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s....
 jazz, though other styles also sometimes appeared on the label. Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon

Albert Edwin Condon , better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion....
 recorded frequently for the label, with such notables as George Brunies
George Brunies

George Brunies, aka Georg Brunis, was a well-known early jazz trombonist.George Clarence Brunies was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 6, 1902 into a very musical family....
 and Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
 often in his band. Commodore was one of the first labels to list the full personnel of bands on the label.

Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
 also recorded for Commodore (in 1939 and 1944), with "Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit

"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday. It condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans that had occurred chiefly in the Southern United States but also in all regions of the United States....
" and "Fine and Mellow
Fine and Mellow

Fine and Mellow is a 1974 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by many famous jazz musicians. It opens with the eponymous Fine and Mellow written by Billie Holliday....
" first appearing on that label.

After World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 Gabler went to work for Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
, and his Commodore label was later used by Decca for reissuing earlier jazz recordings on LP.

Mosaic Records
Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American specialist jazz record label, founded in 1983 in music by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie to issue coherent limited edition box sets of jazz recordings by individual musicians, which had fallen out-of-print....
 issued three LP sets of the label's complete output.

See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...