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Good Time Jazz was an American 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....
 record label.

The label was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
; its first releases were from the Firehouse Five Plus Two
Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz music ensemble, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment animation department;...
. It did both new releases and reissues of classic jazz; among the artists whose music was released on Good Time Jazz were Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an United States ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902....
, Burt Bales
Burt Bales

Burt Bales was an American jazz stride piano.Bales began on piano at age twelve, and played in hotels and nightclubs in California in the 1930s....
, Wally Rose
Wally Rose

Wally Rose was an American jazz and ragtime pianist.Rose was a mainstay of the jazz scene in San Francisco during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the pianist for Lu Watters's group, the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, for its entire existence, from 1939 to 1950....
, Luckey Roberts
Luckey Roberts

Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles....
, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Lu Watters
Lu Watters

Lucius "Lu" Watters was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the "West Coast revival" of Dixieland music. This is relational to trad jazz as the musicians tended to be white and had little or no actual connections to New Orleans....
, Bob Scobey
Bob Scobey

Bob Scobey was an American jazz musician born in Tucumcari, New Mexico.He began his career playing in dance orchestras and nightclubs in the 1930s....
, Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson

Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s....
, Kid Ory
Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
, George Lewis
George Lewis (clarinetist)

George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.Born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, his legal name was, George Louis Francois Zenon....
, Johnny Wiggs
Johnny Wiggs

Johnny Wiggs was a jazz musician and band leader.Born John Wigginton Hyman on in New Orleans, Louisiana, he started his music career on the violin....
, Sharkey Bonano
Sharkey Bonano

Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet with a beautiful tone....
, and Don Ewell
Don Ewell

Don Ewell was an United States jazz stride pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best-known for his work with several prominent New Orleans-based musicians such as Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis , George Brunis, Muggsy Spanier and Bunk Johnson....
.

Good Time was eventually subsumed by Koenig's Contemporary Records
Contemporary Records

Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
, and ceased operations in 1969.






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Good Time Jazz was an American 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....
 record label.

The label was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
; its first releases were from the Firehouse Five Plus Two
Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz music ensemble, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment animation department;...
. It did both new releases and reissues of classic jazz; among the artists whose music was released on Good Time Jazz were Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an United States ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902....
, Burt Bales
Burt Bales

Burt Bales was an American jazz stride piano.Bales began on piano at age twelve, and played in hotels and nightclubs in California in the 1930s....
, Wally Rose
Wally Rose

Wally Rose was an American jazz and ragtime pianist.Rose was a mainstay of the jazz scene in San Francisco during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the pianist for Lu Watters's group, the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, for its entire existence, from 1939 to 1950....
, Luckey Roberts
Luckey Roberts

Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles....
, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Lu Watters
Lu Watters

Lucius "Lu" Watters was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the "West Coast revival" of Dixieland music. This is relational to trad jazz as the musicians tended to be white and had little or no actual connections to New Orleans....
, Bob Scobey
Bob Scobey

Bob Scobey was an American jazz musician born in Tucumcari, New Mexico.He began his career playing in dance orchestras and nightclubs in the 1930s....
, Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson

Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s....
, Kid Ory
Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
, George Lewis
George Lewis (clarinetist)

George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.Born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, his legal name was, George Louis Francois Zenon....
, Johnny Wiggs
Johnny Wiggs

Johnny Wiggs was a jazz musician and band leader.Born John Wigginton Hyman on in New Orleans, Louisiana, he started his music career on the violin....
, Sharkey Bonano
Sharkey Bonano

Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet with a beautiful tone....
, and Don Ewell
Don Ewell

Don Ewell was an United States jazz stride pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best-known for his work with several prominent New Orleans-based musicians such as Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis , George Brunis, Muggsy Spanier and Bunk Johnson....
.

Good Time was eventually subsumed by Koenig's Contemporary Records
Contemporary Records

Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
, and ceased operations in 1969. Koenig died in 1977, and the label's material was then sold to Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
, who has anthologized some of it. It was acquired by the Concord Music Group
Concord Music Group

Concord Music Group is a record company formed in 2004 in music by the merger of Concord Records and Fantasy Records. In 2005, the company acquired the classics and jazz label Telarc International....
 in 2004
2004 in music

See also:* 2004 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2004...
 when Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
 was taken over.

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:...