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Storyville Records is a Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 founded in 1950
1950 in music

Events*January 3 - Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.*August - Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival....
 by Karl Emil Knudsen, a jazz record collector, then working for the Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
 telephone company. Named after Storyville
Storyville

Storyville was the prostitution district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 through 1917.Locals usually simply referred to the area as The District....
 the famous historic Red light district of New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
, its main focus has always been on 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 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
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The label's first releases were 78 rpm reissues featuring Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey

Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey , was one of the earliest known United States professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record....
, Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams

Clarence Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher....
 Blue Five, and James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson

James Price Johnson [A.K.A. "Jimmy Johnson"] was an African-American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was one of the originators of the Stride piano style of jazz piano playing....
, but Storyville soon began releasing original recordings, starting with Ken Colyer
Ken Colyer

Kenneth 'Edward' Colyer was a United Kingdom jazz trumpeter and cornetist, devoted totally to New Orleans jazz]]. His band was also known for skiffle interludes....
's Jazz Men, a British group whose members included trombonist Chris Barber
Chris Barber

Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber is best known as a jazz trombonist....
, clarinetist Monty Sunshine, and singer-guitarist Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
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Storyville Records is a Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 founded in 1950
1950 in music

Events*January 3 - Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.*August - Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival....
 by Karl Emil Knudsen, a jazz record collector, then working for the Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
 telephone company. Named after Storyville
Storyville

Storyville was the prostitution district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 through 1917.Locals usually simply referred to the area as The District....
 the famous historic Red light district of New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
, its main focus has always been on 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 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
.

The label's first releases were 78 rpm reissues featuring Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey

Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey , was one of the earliest known United States professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record....
, Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams

Clarence Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher....
 Blue Five, and James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson

James Price Johnson [A.K.A. "Jimmy Johnson"] was an African-American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was one of the originators of the Stride piano style of jazz piano playing....
, but Storyville soon began releasing original recordings, starting with Ken Colyer
Ken Colyer

Kenneth 'Edward' Colyer was a United Kingdom jazz trumpeter and cornetist, devoted totally to New Orleans jazz]]. His band was also known for skiffle interludes....
's Jazz Men, a British group whose members included trombonist Chris Barber
Chris Barber

Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber is best known as a jazz trombonist....
, clarinetist Monty Sunshine, and singer-guitarist Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
. Knudsen was also co-founder of the Storyville Club, a popular Copenhagen trad band hangout that brought the Colyer band to Denmark in 1953. The band was recorded by Chris Albertson
Chris Albertson

Christiern Gunnar Albertson is a New York City-based jazz journalist, writer and record producer.He was born in Reykjav?k and educated in Iceland, Denmark and England before studying commercial art in Copenhagen....
 during its stay in Denmark and these performances—which constituted the label's first release of original material—remain in the Storyville catalogue. Today, the company's catalogue contains an eclectic representation of jazz genres and has expanded to also include a substantial number of video releases and--under the umbrella company, JazzMedia--jazz and blues-oriented books and discographies. When Karl Emil Knudsen died in September 5, 2003, the company continued to function under the leadership of Anders Stefansen, who remained at the helm in 2005, when it was acquired by Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Denmark's oldest music publishing company. The label continues to expand its catalog.

Besides its original material, Storyville Records has licensed and reissued many vintage jazz recordings that previously appeared on such labels as Paramount Records
Paramount Records

Paramount Records was an United States record label, best known for its recordings of African-American jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson....
, American Music Records
American Music Records

American Music Records is a United States-based record label specializing in traditional New Orleans jazz.The label was founded by Bill Russell in 1944 in music, who ran the label almost entirely by himself for most of his life ....
 and Southland Records
Southland Records

Southland Records is a New Orleans, Louisiana based independent record label.Southland was founded c.1948 in music by Joeseph P. Mares. Mares was the an amateur jazz clarinetist, and the younger brother of noted jazz cornetist Paul Mares....
. Many Storyville gramophone record
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
s were pressed in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
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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:...
  • Storyville Records artists
    Storyville Records artists

    This article is about important musicians whose work appears on Storyville Records....


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