American Music Records

{{Short description|American jazz record company and label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = American Music Records | founded = {{start date|1944}} | founder = William Russell | defunct = {{end date|1957}} | distributor = Jazzology | genre = Jazz | country = U.S. | location = New Orleans, Louisiana }}

'''American Music Records''' is a jazz record company and label that was established by Bill Russell in 1944.<ref name="RCJE">{{Cite book| last = Cook| first = Richard| year = 2005| title = Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia| publisher = Penguin Books| location = London| isbn = 0-141-00646-3| pages = 11–12}}</ref>

Russell produced new recordings and reissues, concentrating on New Orleans jazz musicians such as Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Baby Dodds, and Wooden Joe Nicholas. In 1957 Storyville Records produced American Music's reissues on vinyl LP, as did the Japanese label Dan. Starting in 1989, George Buck's Jazzology group began releasing the back catalog on its American Music CD series.<ref name="Rye">{{cite book |last1=Rye |first1=Howard|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|page=49|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref name="All Music">{{cite book |last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra|editor3-first=Chris|editor4-last=Yanow|editor4-first=Scott|title=All Music Guide to Jazz |date=1998 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |location=San Francisco|isbn=0-87930-530-4|edition=3rd|chapter=Labels}}</ref>

==Roster== {{Unreferenced section|date=November 2017}} Musicians on the "Yellow Series" of American Music Records included: {{div col}}Emile Barnes, Albert Burbank, Louis Nelson Delisle, Baby Dodds,Natty Dominique,Cie Frazier,George Guesnon, Darnell Howard,Kid Howard,Albert Jiles, Bunk Johnson,Louis Keppard, George Lewis,Charlie Love, Louis "Kid Shots" Madison, Lawrence Marrero,Herb Morand, Louis Nelson,Wooden Joe Nicholas, Alcide Pavageau,Jim Robinson,Johnny St. Cyr and Kid Thomas Valentine. {{div col end}} Musicians on other series included: {{div col}} * Alvin Alcorn * Red Allen * George Baquet * Louis Barbarin * Paul Barbarin * Polo Barnes * Sidney Bechet * Barney Bigard * Peter Bocage * John Brunious * Raymond Burke * Cag Cagnolatti * Mutt Carey * John Casimir * Papa Celestin * Kid Clayton * Kid Sheik * Joe Darensbourg * Eureka Brass Band * Pops Foster * Minor Hall * Captain John Handy * Percy Humphrey * Willie Humphrey * Clifford "Snags" Jones * Punch Miller * Albert Nicholas * Olympia Brass Band * Kid Ory * Billie Pierce and De De Pierce * Alton Purnell * Kid Rena * Emanuel Sayles * Muggsy Spanier * Albert Warner * Johnny Wiggs * Buster Wilson {{div col end}}

==See also== *List of record labels

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Category:American jazz record labels Category:American independent record labels Category:Record labels established in 1944 Category:Reissue record labels