[JPL] A slight jazz connection with the Inauguration

[Len Dobbin]

A great deal of it ended up on Savoy, but the Gillespie were originally on 
Dee Gee as were the early Milt Jackson Quartet (MJQ).

Len
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Records

Discovery Records was a United States based record label known for its
recordings of jazz music.
Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx. Marx
recorded such jazz notables as Dizzy Gillespie, Red Norvo, and Charlie
Mingus for issue on his Discovery label, headquartered in Hollywood,
California.
Marx acquired the back-catalogues of Musicraft Records and Trend Records and
reissued them on Discovery through the 1980s. His estate sold the Discovery,
Trend and Musicraft jazz labels in 1991 to Jac Holzman which he refashioned
into a fully contemporary label. In 1993, Discovery Records was acquired by
Warner Music Group and was absorbed by Sire Records in 1996.


Albert Marx Factoid...Believe it was Albert Marx who is responsible for
recording the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert from 1938 that sat in
Benny¹s closet before he Odiscovered¹ what he had...Jim Eigo-Jazz Promo

> When I heard that Barack Obama will be wearing a Hart Schaffner Marx tux
> to his inauguration, it got me to think about Albert Marx and his
> wonderful Discovery records label.  Anyone know what ever happened to
> the catalog?
>

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